Aaron Douglas Quotes
My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.
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Scores of armed antigovernment groups, some of them far more radical, have formed or been revived during the Obama years, according to law-enforcement agencies and outside watchdogs.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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We had particular policies in this country that resulted in the larger share of poverty that we have in African-American communities.
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In my career, there have been roles I haven't taken because someone involved with the project gave me a bad vibe. I don't care how much money is on the table: No job is worth feeling uneasy every day.
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Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work.
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I love to be with my son and my grandchildren, like normal people. I have no particular idea of what I represent to other people. It's very mysterious to me. I don't understand it.
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Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.
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The years go so fast. I mean, I just realized that at the end of the year I will be twenty-two, and I just turned twenty-one.
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I don't like talking to celebrities.
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Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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They wanted to audition people for the Middle East correspondent on 'The Daily Show.' They wanted to hire somebody ethnic for that slot. Helms had left, Cordry had left, and they felt that they needed an ethnic face. So, I went in and auditioned, and I got the job.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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I used to read a lot of fashion magazines: my favourite was 'Nylon.' I used to cut out all the pictures from magazines, and I had this book where I would keep all of the stuff that inspired me.
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My knee has always given me problems. But it got to the point where I actually had to start giving up things. And I hate that.
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Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.
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If I wasn't in fashion, I would have been a psychiatrist.
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There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.
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Remember this: your body is your slave; it works for you.
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During those days when you're exhausted and during those days when you're frustrated, during those days when you're being attacked by your own people for doing what you think is right, remember you're part of a progression that goes back a long time of ordinary people who are doing their best to make it a better world.
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It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.
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Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.
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My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.
