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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What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.
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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 think a lot of people want me to be like the characters in the books: they want that kind of congruence.
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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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Walking around the streets with our dog is what we did all the time in Washington. Making friends with new people is something we did a lot in Washington. Traveling overseas is something that my wife Robyn and I really enjoyed together. This is really who we are.
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The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs.
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Every time I was off school, I was in Carolina with my cousins. So it was a big influence on me. I actually experienced straight-up racism out there, too.
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I don't play anymore, because I know I'm not going to be a pro golfer. So there's no reason to golf.
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I try not to hit a swing volley and run back. So my swing volley is kind of that transition to the net. It's been one of my favorite shots ever since I was young.
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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.
