Booker T. Washington Quotes
One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
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The recognition of rights for women and minorities became a large part of my understanding of what this country is all about.
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Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.
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Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.
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Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.
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The thing I'm scared of most is not fulfilling my work. There's so much anxiety around trying to get a movie made that you don't really get to be afraid of anything else.
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Soviet expansionism in Europe, the battle for control of China, and the 1950 invasion of South Korea would shatter once-euphoric dreams of post-war cooperation with the Kremlin.
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I miss submitting people; I have a lot of confidence in my jiu-jitsu.
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'Runaround Sue' was a big record for me, as well as the music video for it.
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Children learn much more from how you act than from what you tell them. There are times this worries me - we parents are rarely the role models we want to be. True for life. True for driving.
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My motto is more, 'If you want to find something new, look for something new!' There is a certain amount of risk in this attitude, as even the slightest failure tends to be resounding, but you are so happy when you succeed that it is worth taking the risk.
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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
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In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.
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I proved to myself that if I believe in something and set my mind to it I could actually accomplish it.
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Ambition is important. Of course you can't get anywhere without talent, but there are a lot of talented people. To succeed, you have to be the most ambitious talented person.
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I did not know many of the details relevant to the Iran and contra initiatives.
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God is my homeboy. Jesus is my homeboy.
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Some people have been talking about - every place I go, they bring up the issue of foreign aid. I go, 'You can't get rid of all foreign aid.'
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Boys with a 'failure to launch' are invisible to most girls. With poor social skills, the boys feel anger at their fear of being rejected and self-loathing at their inability to compete.
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When you are able to maintain your own highest standards of integrity - regardless of what others may do - you are destined for greatness.
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I believe that politics is a matter of person. Specifically in the Fifth French Republic. In a healthy political system, a political party should resemble its leader.
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I don't want any romantics to go into the military. I'm not a pacifist. I think we need a military, and the better one we have, the better off we are. I don't want kids going in there thinking that it's John Wayne on Iwo Jima. That's not healthy.
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All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women.
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Though I'm getting a lot of acting offers, I'd like to enter only when I'm ready. My first love will always be music.
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One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
