Freeman A. Hrabowski III Quotes
Speak up. You have to project! If people can't hear you, it doesn't matter what you say.
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Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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Ohio has long been an embarrassment to charter-school supporters nationwide, with its trail of scandal and graft and abysmal student performance.
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I like rap. I like anything with soul. I like anything you can feel, anything that makes you think that the artist had to make that song, or they were going to go crazy.
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I really, really love Daniel Craig as Bond.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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Early impressions are like glimpses seen through the window by night when lightning is about.
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I can't watch a Mayweather fight. I don't find it exciting.
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Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.
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I had a Ford F-250. It was a big ol' farm truck, but it wasn't a rig. That's about the biggest I've ever driven. That's what I drove back and forth to high school. I was a poor guy, and it was a truck that my uncle owned and let me drive because I had no money.
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We had a kid. The kid was awesome. She didn't fall asleep easily. We complained about it. We got frustrated. But we didn't look for an out. We just accepted that this was part of parenting.
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.
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We - we spend a lot of time, scholarly time, thinking about love and sex, but very little about the - the kind of joy that can take over a crowd of people or a group of people, in festivity, in ecstatic ritual of some kind, in celebration.
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I didn't particularly like being objectified.
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In the finance world, we used to spend all of our time looking backwards, reporting on what happened. Can I book it? What are the numbers? Now it's about looking into the future. It's about planning and integration. The role of finance is now that of a partner in the business.
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Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.
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Joy is a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.
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On set is where I feel comfortable. The red carpet stuff, talking about the film, explaining your own life, it doesn't come naturally. It's all necessary stuff I suppose but it's not my strength.
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I don't even know how people managed without the Internet years ago. Having to mail a cassette tape of your music to strangers over the course of months... I just can't imagine having to do that.
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Damita Jo. Jo. That's my middle name. It's let in about the different characters that live within me. They say we have 200 characters that we portray with different people.
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I get letters from young people telling me that they're broke and download my albums for free. They ask me what I think about that. I now have a standard line. I tell them, 'I would rather be heard than paid.'
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Speak up. You have to project! If people can't hear you, it doesn't matter what you say.
