Booker T. Washington Quotes
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I need to eat a lot; otherwise, I feel faint. I get in the worst moods if I don't eat.
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.
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I always dreamed of going to the Olympics. To be going to the Games in your own country is another thing; to do it as a potential medallist is another thing again.
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The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
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Health care should be affordable for everyone.
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I've played so many different parts in the last 40 years.
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I had the most magical childhood, running free and going anywhere I wanted to in my head.
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I know I'm not a wordsmith. And I don't write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it's really helpful. But I always wanted to write novels.
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I think that people are most comfortable when they can put you in a box - and that's very easy to do that when someone can put you in more serious roles. I'm not blaming them for that - it's just up to me to show people what I can do.
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Those of us who are blessed, we owe it to our fellow citizens and folks who we are around to do something special for them.
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I love being called NTR's grandson. I never moved away from his shadow, maybe because I didn't try enough or maybe because I like it this way.
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I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty.
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I know I'm going to be remembered for football. That's why I work so hard at it.
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The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands.
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In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the world's goods must steadily decrease.
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We can define the rules of police-citizen engagement, but everyday decisions will always be made by men and women in uniform, on the street, in the community, under extreme pressure, in a dangerous world where guns easily fall into the wrong hands.
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I found I had the ability to do comedy. My timing was really inborn.
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I love my husband very much. I knew it was real true love because I felt like I could be myself around that person. Your true, true innermost authentic self, the stuff you don't let anyone else see, if you can be that way with that person, I think that that's real love.
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Full is the earth of the superfluous; marred is life by the many-too-many. May they be decoyed out of this life by the "life eternal"!
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I know too that the only reason we have got any cooperation at all out of Iraq is because of the credible threat of force.
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Do not be ashamed to give a little; for to deceive is to give still less.
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As a novelist, I'm incredibly lucky to make a living, but that doesn't mean that I don't lie awake at four o'clock in the morning, worrying.
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We must reinforce argument with results.
