Douglas Wilder Quotes
Certain black leaders would believe that you have to go through their prism: 'If I lay my hand on you, you're OK.' So many people have made a living off of the pimping of race.
Quotes to Explore
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Nothing improves your confidence and brings a team together more than winning a cup.
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I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.
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I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film.
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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
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The problem of the minimum dwelling is that of establishing the elementary minimum of space, air, light, and heat required by man in order that he be able to fully develop his life functions without experiencing limitations due to his dwelling, i.e. a minimum modus vivendi in place of a modus non moriendi.
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A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
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I always knew I wanted to make my own way; I never wanted to be dependent on my father.
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Plus, I am paranoid by nature. I need to be in control.
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I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.
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For me, it's very offensive when I notice that it's all about my appearance, how I look, that a man doesn't care who I am.
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As a musician usually music is your way out.
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I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.
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I haven't chosen any party yet because people choose parties when they get older. When it's time, I'll look, and if I can't find one to join, I'll make another party.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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I've made it my mission to make movies starring African American actors and about the African American experience and put them in the mainstream. They're very universal stories I've told - every movie I've done.
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I think the only safe medium are books, because people like to hold books in their hand.
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From my side, there was no acceptance to this fact that I am any less than anyone around me. So there was a certain discomfort that I felt growing up that I am not seen as I want to be seen as.
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Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.
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What seems strange is that Obama elicits such extreme dislike when, in fact, he is an exemplary family man, and his policy positions would have made him a conventional liberal Republican not that long ago.
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I was never involved in any fights in high school. I'm glad I wasn't. I'm not very big, and I don't find great joy in cuts and bruises.
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It never feels like work. I get to go to the studio and be with my friends every day and write new things and experiment with new sounds. We just have a blast.
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It's okay not to be perfect. Your imperfections are what make you YOU. And at the end of the day, people like real people, flaws and all. At least I do.
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Certain black leaders would believe that you have to go through their prism: 'If I lay my hand on you, you're OK.' So many people have made a living off of the pimping of race.
