James Weldon Johnson Quotes
When we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despair. After my long stay in the French capital, huge, ponderous, massive London seemed to me as ugly a thing as man could contrive to make.
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Humanity will live as long as there are humans.
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Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet.
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Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
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If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
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The markets are much more interested in America's long-term trajectory than they are in feeling that there is an acute short-term crisis.
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There have been periods of my career that I haven't worked for a really long time, like seven or eight months.
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Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.
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As long as it says Metallica on the record it's Metallica.
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I have long admired Univision - a pioneer in the industry - and recognized the tremendous potential and influence of the burgeoning U.S. Hispanic population.
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I was an avid tomboy, and as long as I could ride my bike just as fast, hit the ball just as hard, and catch just as many garter snakes, I was accepted as one of the boys and enjoyed all the perks of superiority.
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The simple truth is, the short-term solution is for the FDA to allow more importation of safe vaccines from other nations. But the long-term solution is to get more vaccine production within the U.S.
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I had a Guru. He was a great saint and most merciful. I served him long - very, very long; still, he would not blow any mantra in my ears. I had a keen desire never to leave him but to stay with him and serve him and at all cost receive some instruction from him.
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When I lived in London, I worked three jobs and had such long work days.
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This has been a trend for a long time; the days of lifetime employment are long since over.
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Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really that important in the long term.
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The best part about being married is feeling centered. Nothing else matters so much as long as you can come home and be with your family.
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Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.
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I've always believed in myself, and it's such a long competition over two days, you can't worry about what anyone else is doing.
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Whenever you go through the length and breadth of our country... you see a long face: you will see the long face of an African woman because she's black, because she's poor.
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National Parks are the gold standard for conservation.
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See my father knew a lot about music, he played the piano and he would do theory and stuff like that, but I didn't learn anything from him, but I played that for him and he liked it a lot.
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The material you work with is that which you will come to resemble. That which you work against will always work against you, including yourself.
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I'd say there are two kinds of theater: one you end with an answer, one you end with a question.
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When we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despair. After my long stay in the French capital, huge, ponderous, massive London seemed to me as ugly a thing as man could contrive to make.
