James Anthony Froude Quotes
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Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated expectations beyond reality in some respects.
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I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.
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As technology changes the way we communicate, connect, create, consume and innovate, it is democratizing access to opportunity. Education is no exception.
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Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
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I was not really as good as I should have been.
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I live for the text. It's my job.
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A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.
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A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.
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We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one.
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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
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I've come up in the scripted world, and I have wished there were more time slots for us to tell compelling scripted stories and not fill the airwaves with a lot of fluff and tabloid entertainment.
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I don't think it should be a surprise for anyone to hear that I'm gay.
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You have to change your life for yourself, and it's about the fun of getting there - sitting in the tour van, breaking down on the side of the road, you know, having a laugh with the guys in the band, making mistakes with nobody watching.
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When I see Bruce Banner becoming the Hulk, it's only a picture. My imagination has to do some of the work there, to impute feeling and everything. We're talking about something that's so surreal, it's just not possible within the world as we know it. So that requires a form that is not so literal.
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Fame comes with its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another guy with a lip twitch - unless he's Humphrey Bogart.
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When I was a kid, among the other embarrassing things I would do, and there's a list of stupid things, but I would make these dumb comedy tapes. I would often make prank phone calls, but I would also do it with friends.
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I think there's a very clear recognition and understanding that the progress of women in business at the very highest decision-making levels is too slow. This is a discussion that's going on in every country around the world, actually.
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It is what it is. I balled out, had some good years, man, had fun and did it with some guys and made relationships that will never end.
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Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information.
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Peace will not come out of a clash of arms but out of justice lived and done by unarmed nations in the face of odds.
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I once went into a meeting, and every woman put her a million-pound bag on the table. Then I'm there with my tote bag and anorak. And I'm like, well, I'm still the most important person in the room right now.
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The kids growing up in the apartheid era were so restricted and angry - if they spoke out against it, they were thrown in jail.
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There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.
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Justice without wisdom is impossible.
