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.
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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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I think the only safe medium are books, because people like to hold books in their hand.
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When I walk around on the street and someone comes up to me, I have just as many full-grown men with large beards in Slipknot shirts saying he likes my band as much as I do girls with bright pink hair.
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The greatest economic power might in fact remain in the hands of the Federal Reserve. Economists credit the Fed's policy of keeping interest rates at historic lows with helping to pump up the economy and bring unemployment down.
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The pressure is on the women to be particularly small, and then not only that, the whole package. It's extreme.
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I used to assume no one would care, but I do think now I've written songs that are useful to people having dark hours.
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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.
