Booker T. Washington Quotes
There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
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I created 'The Guild' because nobody was offering me the roles I thought I could do best at in Hollywood.
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The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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I wanted to be a bull rider when I grew up.
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I feel I'm a strange mixture of insecurity and strength. Most of us, probably most people. I'm transferring that same concept to the people I photograph.
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I try not to eat too many raw vegetables. I only have one raw meal a day. At night I eat warm, cooked foods. I like to drink lots of tea, but no coffee. Not drinking coffee has changed my game for the better.
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Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
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I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
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Not everybody is a great rapper; not everybody lives for the art of lyricism.
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You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.
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I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up, but I don't see how I can ever trust any human being again.
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If it's a close election, then it's better for the Supreme Court to pick the president, whether or not he won the election. It's just insane on its face.
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The general belief is that communists in the United Nations come only from the Iron Curtain countries, but this isn't so. We must remember that many of the representatives of free countries are members of the local Communist parties. If you add them all up, you will see they have an amazing degree of control.
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It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what was beyond these and yet farther beyond that drawingroom poet of my childhood in the expression of love, and grief, and the pain of parting, that are the disclosure of the individual soul.
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Stuff that I write isn't as similar to the stuff that I'm in, but I don't really care. I just do comedy.
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This is America. Success is not guaranteed.
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It's a privilege to do what I do for a living - to take people out of their miserable day, or to educate somebody, or make somebody laugh, or fall in love with an idea. How good is that? And I get paid to do it!
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Freedom under law is like the air we breathe.
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I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
