Booker T. Washington Quotes
One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
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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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It's the irrational things that interest me.
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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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The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.
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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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I'm extremely critical. I don't consider myself a performance artist. I balk at the term performance art.
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I get very deep into the writing and recording process.
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We must demonstrate that it is possible to overcome poverty, misery and decay by democratic means, and we must ourselves believe, and must show others, that our American tradition of the dignity and liberty of the individual is not a luxury for easy times but is the basic source of the strength and security of a successful society.
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I am not homophobic; I am cock-conscious.
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One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
