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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Obviously, not playing a game before playoffs is something that happened, but especially going into the playoffs, you try to feel yourself out, where you're at, and then get right into game tempo and jump right in and play where you were before the injury.
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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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The happiest life is that which constantly exercises and educates what is best in us.
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I love summertime more than anything else in the world. That is the only thing that gets me through the winter, knowing that summer is going to be there.
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My brother was older, and since the law of the west was fairly entrenched in our household, whoever was bigger got control of the television. I sat mesmerized, and horrified, through hundreds of gunfights and became emotionally involved with everyone in Bonanza and Gunsmoke.
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There is no doubt that now, more than ever, we must work to end our dependence on foreign oil sources. But we cannot do so by ignoring the wishes of the coastal communities that oppose drilling.
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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.
