James Weldon Johnson Quotes

Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals; it had never entered my mind that I should find similar conditions in a Dutch town.

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• We are not accepting that countries just get to sit back and let the United States meet threats that are going to roost in their worlds just as easily as they are in ours.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Back
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• It's very important to give back to the community and do anything you can.

  

  Eddie Money
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  • You
  • Community

• I've come a long way since 2007 when I kind of launched my golf career.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
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• I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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• I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me. Wasn't 'Terminator' about a girl? And 'Alien'? Hell, I grew up on 'The Wizard of Oz.' People enjoy stories about anything if they're good stories.

  

  Ted Naifeh
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• Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.

  

  Salman Khan
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• Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.

  

  Sally Pearson
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• With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.

  

  Felix Dennis
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• I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.

  

  Patricia Velasquez
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• We may define therapy as a search for value.

  

  Abraham Maslow
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• Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.

  

  Wendell Berry
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• And if you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide, I think, a certain measure of truth from the public, and I think that's very important for the American public to know.

  

  Lance Ito
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• My dad's family were pretty working class, actually.

  

  Dan Stevens
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• Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Today
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• My first film 'Saawariya' was a flop; I don't regret it.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
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• When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of years of playing folk music, I kinda rediscovered those hits that were on the radio all the time when I was a kid.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Time
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• Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
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• With TV, the pace is so fast, the scripts are coming at you, the directors are firing things at you, it's breathtaking.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
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• The key is that when we disagree, we really hear the other one out and agree that there is a more elegant solution than one of us 'winning.'

  

  Jennifer Konner
  • Winning

• Your ancestors invaded Macedonia and the rest of Greece and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury; … and I have been appointed leader of the Greeks …

  

  Arrian
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• Everybody is great when things are great. It's the 'not great' stuff that matters.

  

  Franka Potente
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• I like art with a sense of humor. I don't have a huge art education to understand everything. I don't think that means that art has to be watered down to the lowest common denominator, though. I don't think you have to go to college to be able appreciate great art, but I like art that doesn't take itself too seriously.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
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• Sometimes you read a script, and you just think, 'Wow, I would love to go and tell that story, and I don't even care what happens to the film, I would just love that experience.' And often, that mentality makes a great film.

  

  Jim Sturgess
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• Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals; it had never entered my mind that I should find similar conditions in a Dutch town.

  

  James Weldon Johnson
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