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.
Pat Roberts -
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.
Zadie Smith -
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.
Harold Feinstein -
Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone.
Harold Ramis -
The laptop computer is a workhorse. The tablet is just a display.
Barry Lam -
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.
Walter Map
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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.
Omari Hardwick -
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.
Ira Glass -
What I'm working is for peace on ground between Israelis and Palestinians through business, through economy, through quality of life.
Naftali Bennett -
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.
Barbara Ann Scott -
But even now, when people see me in the street, they point upwards to the sky.
Barry Gibb Bee Gees -
Just like my father, I've always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.
Barbra Streisand
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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.
Mahershala Ali -
My main concern is getting out an album that I feel really proud of.
Carly Rae Jepsen -
My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.
Walter Matthau -
From here, our people begin the march towards establishing an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital
Mahmoud Abbas -
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.
P. G. Wodehouse -
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.
Courtney Love
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Love isn't supposed to torment you. If it does, there's probably something wrong.
Yasmin Mogahed -
We in the U.A.E. have no such word as 'impossible'; it does not exist in our lexicon. Such a word is used by the lazy and the weak, who fear challenges and progress.
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum -
I think I can speak for a lot of people in that they would be pretty nervous about meeting Harrison Ford, and I was definitely one of those people.
Asa Butterfield -
Sometimes the things we think are the impediments are actually the path.
Bob Goff -
See with one eye, feel with the other.
Paul Klee -
Washington shows the Negro not only at his best, but also at his worst.
James Weldon Johnson