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
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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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• I read The Bell Jar, and then I read her memoir and her diaries, and a third book, an outside opinion. Just the way she made the pillows so neat on the oven door. It just seems to be the opposite of, if you're going to take your life, in a horrible rage it happens.

  

  Paul Westerberg The Replacements
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• Congress must build on the success of the Budget Control Act.

  

  Kevin Brady
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• Investment banks started recruiting at Harvard back in the day, and they'd fly me down to New York City and I was so poor so I would take advantage of the free flight, the per diem, the hotel. And then I would go audition for stuff.

  

  Dean Norris
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• What is essential - the one thing that could stop us being coarsened to other lives - is that we feel a great, living wave of animal life all around us, covering the earth.

  

  John Burnside
  • Life
  • Great
  • Earth

• When I get back into the city, it doesn't matter where you plop me down, I have my friends around me and I feel so blessed. I think we all just love to be together and there are just not enough reasons to be together.

  

  Agathe Snow
  • Friends
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  • City

• 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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