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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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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Time is the wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.
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The good things about Chicago save me on a daily basis, like getting to work with my students, seeing a beautiful part of the city, or seeing the people that I love.
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It's a humorous statement that doesn't mean anything. You can't lie to God - it's ridiculous.
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I have always had a liking for pilgrimages, and if I had lived in the Middle Ages would have spent most of my time on the way to Rome. The pilgrims, leaving all their cares at home, the anxieties of their riches or their debts, the wife that worried and the children that disturbed, took only their sins with them, and turning back on their obligations, set out with that sole burden, and perhaps a cheerful heart.
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I always think to myself, being human, having crushes now, what is it about that person that I really want? What do they represent? More freedom? Someone to care for me more? It's never really about the person.
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A nursery rhyme shapes your bones and nerves, and it shapes your mind. They are powerful, nursery rhymes, and immensely old, and not toys, even though they are for children." "But they make no sense!" Summer protested "Ah, well," said Ben. "Sometimes sense hides behind walls. You must find a window and stick your head right in before you can see it.
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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.
