Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
To fill up Liberia with an ignorant, inexperienced, half-barbarized race, just escaped from the chains of slavery, would be only to prolong, for ages, the period of struggle and conflict which attends the inception of new enterprises.
Quotes to Explore
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Hollywood is strange in and of itself. People dress up and pretend to be other people, and you can either make millions of dollars, or no money. It's odd.
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Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.
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I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
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God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.
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I think for being not unsympathetic that their appearance may also appear, so differently it, must; similarly as with animals, which meet us in very different forms, which look somehow harmonious however all. On exactly such forms I would stand.
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I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top.
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Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.
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I'm famous by default. I came out of the womb, and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
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My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.
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I've tried coconut water straight up before, and to me, it's a little funky.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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It was not my dream to be an artist. How could it have been? I thought, artist, much like a leader, was something you either were or weren't. Never something you set out to be.
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What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
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I was always active as a kid. I was a professional figure skater for many years and I was a dancer, so it's just been part of my life, and I think that creates a certain body type.
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A city is like a family portrait - you don't tear it up if you don't like your uncle's nose.
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To me, the stand up part in my life is great. I know I can do that. When I get an acting chance, I'm really thrilled.
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I'm really interested in passivity as a type of action - sort of allowing the situation to change you, choosing to give in being an act of agency rather than an act of submission.
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I have lovely memories of Los Angeles in the 1930s. I came down to live with my mother's cousin and they invited me to come and go to junior college for a year.
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A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
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To fill up Liberia with an ignorant, inexperienced, half-barbarized race, just escaped from the chains of slavery, would be only to prolong, for ages, the period of struggle and conflict which attends the inception of new enterprises.
