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.
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It's very important to give back to the community and do anything you can.
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I've come a long way since 2007 when I kind of launched my golf career.
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I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.
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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.
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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.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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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.
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I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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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.
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My dad's family were pretty working class, actually.
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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.
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My first film 'Saawariya' was a flop; I don't regret it.
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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.
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Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.
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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.
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I'm more careful about my hands than about what I eat and most anything else, because my hands have been my living. My hands have been able to help me learn. My hands have taken me around the world. So I'm very proud of my hands.
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The 'natural magic' of the camera obscura anticipated Hollywood in turning the spectacle of the external world into a consumer commodity or package. (p. 146)
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To be effective, judicial administration must not be leaden-footed.
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Many years ago, I was a producer on a movie called 'My Dog Skip.' Willie Morris, the great southern writer, had written the book. We had adapted it and taken 17 years of his life and compressed it into one year.
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You see a woman, 22 years old, going out with a guy over 60 - and it's kind of natural. But if it happens in the opposite direction everyone says, 'What is going on there?'
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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.
