Douglas Adams Quotes
'Stotting' is jumping upward with all four legs simultaneously. My advice: do not die until you've seen a large black poodle stotting in the snow.
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From the day of its birth, the anomaly of slavery plagued a nation which asserted the equality of all men, and sought to derive powers of government from the consent of the governed. Within sound of the voices of those who said this lived more than half a million black slaves, forming nearly one-fifth of the population of a new nation.
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I just see religious freedom, as a category, as just being a black hole.
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I had an interest in Scandinavian countries because I'd never seen snow.
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When in life do you get a black and white printout that says this is what you should do? It just doesn't happen.
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Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.
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My dream part would be to play Mitt Romney's sarcastic black maid. We could call it 'Mammy & Me.'
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Do I feel that white directors have to tell only white stories? No. Do I feel that black filmmakers should only tell stories about black people? No. If we say that, then that means Asian people cannot write about anybody but Asians. I don't think a woman should only write about women.
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It is not unprofessional to give free legal advice, but advertising that the first visit will be free is a bit like a fox telling chickens he will not bite them until they cross the threshold of the hen house.
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We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.
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I really wanted Michael Jackson to be in the first Men in Black, but he didn't want to be considered as an alien!
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After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.
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The less I talk about being black, the better.
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Everyone's like, 'Oh, you must live in L.A., the glamorous life,' and I really don't. I'm in a small house, in Pittsburgh, in the snow.
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Granny beads are what they're called when a grandma works the garden all day - you always see them - they have a handkerchief around their neck with a lot of dust on them, and then the sweat will go down and make these black beads of sweat and dirt around their neck. And that's what they call granny beads.
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All these police treating our people wrong, man. Black lives matter, but we got fans of all different colors, so all lives matter.
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There is some group of Americans who are really, really curious to understand how we ended up at this point, where every week it seems like you can turn on your TV and see some sort of abuse being heaped on black people.
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Even during my youth, I can recall very few black people living on any kind of public assistance. People were working, doing some kind of job that was useful to the community.
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The best advice I got as a writer was also the first advice, which came from the late fantasy author and editor Karl Edward Wagner: Any agent who charges to look at your work is a crook.
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Black is not a color.
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Theory should be ever more demanding of our empirical resources. Simultaneously, data should be ever more demanding of the empirical relevance of theory and of the theorist's expertise in working imaginatively on problems of the world, rather than on stylized problems of the imagination.
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I once played amateur tournament tennis six months without double-faulting.
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When you set the right targets, aspirations, and you work efficiently and diligently, the numbers happen.
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And the ripe harvest of the new-mown hayGives it a sweet and wholesome odour.
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'Stotting' is jumping upward with all four legs simultaneously. My advice: do not die until you've seen a large black poodle stotting in the snow.
