James Weldon Johnson Quotes
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Mr. President, it may surprise my colleagues, but I am no fan of federal disaster programs for agriculture. They are difficult to pass and often a disaster to implement.
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My life is black and white and mixed. My mother's a Rastafarian, my dad was a short white guy - it's not an affectation. It's also the lives of millions of people throughout the world.
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The thing is that pictures are everywhere. The question is what we don't see, and why don't we see so much. I just see it.
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Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone.
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The laptop computer is a workhorse. The tablet is just a display.
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The Cistercians do not eat meat... Yet they keep pigs to the number of many thousands, and sell the bacon - though perhaps not quite all of it. The heads, legs, and feet they neither give away, throw away, nor sell. What becomes of them God knows.
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I found poetry at 12 and 13 and, lo and behold, learned that my attorney father had a background in poetry - as he wore dashikis and Afros in the '70s and named his kids Arabic names. He was a poet and a lot like The Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron and all of these folks. He definitely was an artist.
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I think the name of the show, 'This American Life' - we named it that just because it seemed like it made the thing feel big. But we don't think about whether it's an American story or not. We happen to be Americans. I think for the stories to work, they have to be universal.
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What I'm working is for peace on ground between Israelis and Palestinians through business, through economy, through quality of life.
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The most important thing about skating is that it teaches you to do the things you should do before you do the things you want to do.
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But even now, when people see me in the street, they point upwards to the sky.
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Just like my father, I've always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.
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When I was growing up, I was told you could be anything you want to be, but I didn't really believe that because you couldn't be president. Like, I knew that; we never had a black president.
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My main concern is getting out an album that I feel really proud of.
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My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.
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From here, our people begin the march towards establishing an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital
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If you can visualize a bulldog which has just been kicked in the ribs and had its dinner sneaked by the cat, you will have Hildebrand Glossop as he now stood before me.
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When my looks are shot-which I reckon will be in about six years-I’ll have plastic surgery here on my chin, and they can pull my cheeks back, but I’m not ready for that. And because of the smoking, the mouth is starting to give.
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Jim Thorpe is someone I've always loved. He was an Olympic athlete, you know, and a football player from back in the day. I'd love to play him. And then there's a guy called Iceman who was a top hit man for the mob. I would love to play him. Actually, it's sort of in the works, so I hope it goes through.
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If I can't take five years out to serve my country as president, then everything I've been singing about, like equal rights, doesn't mean anything.
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We had all awakened X number of years past our youth feeling sleazy and harsh. Choices still existed, but they were no longer infinite. Fun had become a scrim, concealing the hysteria that lay behind it.
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Let the perfectionist play postal.
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Washington shows the Negro not only at his best, but also at his worst.
