Jean Toomer Quotes
Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own.
Jean Toomer
Quotes to Explore
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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived.
Eddie Vedder
Pearl Jam
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I know things aren't perfect for women in the U.K. and in America, but there are women in the rest of the world who have it far worse.
Maisie Williams
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I had saved a lot of money working at Mrs. Fields' Chocolate Chip Cookies, ushering at the Golden Gate Theatre, and doing odd jobs so I could live in New York for a few months. If it ran out, I would have to give up and go home. It turned out OK. I got my Equity card and started working.
B. D. Wong
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With scientific advances, Congress must now make changes to reflect new therapeutic options.
Nathan Deal
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Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.
Wallace Stevens
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I, for one, am actually still incredibly idealistic, and I still can credibly or very strongly believe that you have to keep fighting for what you believe in, because it's only when you stop that you've truly lost.
Vanessa Kerry
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My father is my inspiration.
Mahesh Babu
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I listen to music cinematically. I think about music and how it would make me feel when it's put to an image, a moving image, and I love it.
Walton Goggins
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I hear beyond the range of sound, I see beyond the range of sight,New earths and skies and seas around, And in my day the sun doth pale his light.
Henry David Thoreau
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Misery loves company but company does not reciprocate.
Addison Mizner
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There are a lot of good things about string theory, and it's great that some people want to work on it.
Antony Garrett Lisi
