James Weldon Johnson Quotes
This Great God,Like a mammy bending over her baby,Kneeled down in the dustToiling over a lump of clayTill He shaped it in His own image.
James Weldon Johnson
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So you had to rev your engines, to beat the Russians and I think more than anything, if the Soviet team would win, or the Soviet athletes would win, you would see and hear and read about that. Quite frequently. So they would make a big issue of it.
Ralph Boston
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On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality.
Candace Parker
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As I grow older I spend more time with my wife, and gradually my interest in the woman's world is growing.
Park Chan-wook
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Working with people from all walks of life, from full-time moms to CEOs at large companies, I've distilled many universal truths about success. There's a secret I've learned that works quite well at helping you to achieve what you want: Decide what you want.
Jack Canfield
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The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.
Haile Gebrselassie
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Geffen was never supportive of the band.
Edie Brickell
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Banks are concerned the central bank is imposing too many regulations. If the trend continues, we'll swing to heavy regulation. We need to have balanced regulation to encourage the economy.
Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
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My wife Danielle and I love travelling, different cultures and good weather.
Gary Lineker
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I come from a theater background, and if you're doing a play, your audience is right there, and you're able to have that one-on-one experience. Doing more TV now, when fans come up to me on the street and talk to me on social media, that's a way to bridge that gap.
Samira Wiley
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
Orson Scott Card
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I feel that, at this point in my career, I don't want to do another television show. I don't want to do a film.
Pamela Anderson
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When it comes to college education, American families are paying more and getting less.
Patricia Schroeder
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I think, people look at me, and they say, 'You were very aggressive,' I say, 'Yeah,' you know, and I've made a better life for myself, for my son, so I should reflect that with my music now. I shouldn't still be rhyming like that; that would be me lying.
Ice T
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I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.
Barbara Broccoli
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You never argued with my mother. You couldn't win.
Vidal Sassoon
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Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.
Barbara Kruger
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I don't remake any movie, whether old or of other language.
Mahesh Babu
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By all means, let someone else have Pearl Harbor.
Charles A. Lockwood
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In the beginning, there is just universe. There is no us. There is just God in His or Her universe. Then we separate God from the universe until we are trapped in it, in the universe we have created.
Alan Moore
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The more we love God the more we will obey. The more we obey the more we will be aware of the reality of Christ in our lives. The more we are aware of Christ in our lives, the more victory we will experience. The more victory we experience, the less difficult the choices are and the less conflict we have within ourselves.
Norma Becker
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In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.
Ed Koch
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I've gone through a really hard divorce, and anyone who has gone through a divorce will speak about how hard the journey is from start to finish. It's a life-uprooting time.
Christina Aguilera
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This Great God,Like a mammy bending over her baby,Kneeled down in the dustToiling over a lump of clayTill He shaped it in His own image.
James Weldon Johnson
