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One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
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I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.
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As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I'm fascinated by their logic and illogic.
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I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.
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Fortune and love favor the brave.
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I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.
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The idea was never for me to be a career bureaucrat or career technocrat; it was more about where I could implement ideas and reform programs.
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After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.
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A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.
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Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.
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I know how to wrap my turban a little better now. In the beginning, it was a little weird.
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At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important.
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Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.
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I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.
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In theatre, there's no time for a proper meal.
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There's a play that Chekhov wrote called 'Uncle Vanya,' and I when I was in school, I played Sonya, and sometimes people ask me if there was ever a role I could play again, that's definitely the role I would play again: Sonya in 'Uncle Vanya.'
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A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
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Finding my way into a novel is always half the battle.
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Not sure if that will benefit me or hurt me, but I know I have the skills and am ready to play in the NBA regardless of my ethnicity.
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The trends that are shaping the twenty-first-century world embody both promise and peril. Globalization, for example, has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty while contributing to social fragmentation and a massive increase in inequality, not to mention serious environmental damage.
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All that Rent the Runway has really done is we've opened up the technology and logistics to make it possible to have the customer decide how long she needs an article of clothing for.
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There are two options for any society: total prohibition as in a totalitarian state, or total license. Both avoid the ardours of decision. Both have the attraction of certainty. The difficult option is to decide where the line should be drawn and this, surely, is the responsiblity of any civilized and democratic country.
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I didn't even know what it was when I started. But I was lucky. I found it at 16. Most people don't discover decathlon until they're 21 or 22.
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I've always been pretty serious and introspective.
