James Weldon Johnson Quotes
Every race and every nation should be judged by the best it has been able to produce, not by the worst.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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I read somewhere that abs are made in the kitchen, and I'd like to agree. I like to think that I try to eat pretty clean, pretty good food.
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I tell the government, if people have no jobs, you are in trouble. Government will be in trouble. My job is to help more people have jobs.
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
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To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
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When you get to 15 and most of your teachers are priests, there's bound to be a conflict.
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Our dreaming capacity gives us a peep into the glorious realities that await us further on. It is the evidence of things possible to us.
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My brother's 21 years older than me, so I grew up doing more adult things. Like listening to old music.
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I think my own personal style always ends up seeping into characters that I play. I've always had a very distinct idea of fashion for myself, and what a character should wear.
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I want to do an album with Steven Seagal.
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You should not ask questions without knowledge.
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I have busted more hippies' noses than all the narcs in the free world.
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I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
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I do think it's important to live in the present because in that way you won't be living in a state of regret.
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My parents always went to rallies and demonstrated against certain things; my generation, we often have a political conscience, but we're not that involved.
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People never notice anything.
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Thug: repeating Look, bud, I said 'Your money or your life.'
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Time is the wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.
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As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, when they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky. So up to the house-top the coursers they flew, with the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too.
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But understanding will always require some effort. You probably wouldn't admire a friend who was good at everything if it cost her no effort.
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Liberalism is the party of upstarts who have insinuated themselves between the people and its big men. Liberals feel themselves as isolated individuals, responsible to nobody. They do not share the nation’s traditions, they are indifferent to its past and have no ambition for its future. They seek only their own personal advantage in the present. Their dream is the great International, in which the differences of peoples and languages, races and cultures will be obliterated.
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I practically lived in the woods when I was a kid, avoiding grown-ups and my dysfunctional family, pretending I was half-wolf, a feral child who napped in nests made out of ferns, ate wild blueberries, and wove sticks and feathers into her hair.
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The most difficult task for anyone wandering through a foreign land with the hope of gaining some insight into it is the profound need to come to terms with the lives and thoughts of strangers.
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Every race and every nation should be judged by the best it has been able to produce, not by the worst.
