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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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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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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I want to go to dinner with Oprah! Who doesn't?
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Were I to be angry at men being fools, I could here find ample room for declamation; but, alas! I have been a fool myself; and why should I be angry with them for being something so natural to every child of humanity?
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Whatever begins to be tranquil is gobbled up by something not tranquil.
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For 24 years of my adult life, by choice I weighed well over 200 pounds. I say 'by choice' because I have never 'accidentally' eaten anything, so when I choose to eat too much, I have chosen to weigh too much.
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Salem houses present to you a serene and dignified front, gracious yet reserved, not thrusting forward their choicest treasures to the eyes of passing strangers; but behind the walls of the houses, enclosed from public view, lie cherished gardens, full of the beauty of life.
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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
