Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
Quotes to Explore
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In many parts of the world, more people have access to a mobile device than to a toilet or running water.
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When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it.
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I'm always about, 'What is the most productive version of what I'm putting into the world?' Something that can be engaged by all folks. I don't have to change everyone.
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For me, I thought I had the best job in the world.
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When you're the youngest and the only boy, you get spoilt but you get told you're spoilt so you don't get to enjoy it very much. I was the only man in the house because my parents divorced and my dad moved away when I was 13.
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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One of the things that's really, really present in 'Between the World and Me' is, I am in some ways outside of the African-American tradition.
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We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.
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I'm the first American designer who went all over the world.
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I definitely don't want to do drama. I'm not looking to branch out into that world.
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It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.
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In certain ways, we, many of us, stopped paying attention to the world. I have to think we would have moved on the whole climate issue in a different way if we'd been paying better attention.
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I want to work with the best coaches in the world.
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I'm always happy and most at home on the stage. I love film and television, but I love live performance... your immediacy with the audience, it makes all the difference in the world.
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I don't burn any calories trying to be masculine; I just happen to be from that world.
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It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
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Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.
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I have a saying: I try to make the world smaller by making the party bigger.
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I try to find scripts of stories that kinda celebrate the human condition... let's talk about the tough world out there and the human spirit overcoming adversity.
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I was always very aware of drummers. My oldest brother Henry was a drummer, and he drummed on everything in the house from the kitchen sink to stovepipes. He was the first drummer in the Gil Evans Orchestra, so you've got to know how great he was.
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I give kudos to them for having the courage to bring me here... The risk is, I'm not the status quo.
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Why is a woman's sexuality always under so much scrutiny? Why can't she do exactly what she please without being called a million things?
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Well, I try not to think about the general public since I have no idea what the general public is and I don't think anybody does.
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What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
