Jean Toomer Quotes
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For women in, say, Alabama, 'feminism' is a dirty word. They would never march in the streets. But although they don't think of themselves as the beneficiaries of feminism, they are.
Hanna Rosin -
I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
Marat Safin -
Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
Eduardo Chillida -
It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
Tacitus -
I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white heat.
J. Michael Straczynski -
The child is pronounced pretty. I think it quite otherwise.
Salmon P. Chase
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I fight for other people better than I fight for myself.
Eartha Kitt -
I did a lot of stunts, so the harness work isn't foreign to me either.
Victoria Pratt -
My father loves people. No matter what their race, no matter what their position in life, he treated everyone with kindness and love and respect. And that was instilled in me just by watching him.
Laila Ali -
I hate to tell you this, but there's an entire subset of people out there who think of me as quite a dull actor. And that's the word used, and often – dull.
Campbell Scott -
The reactions of organic magnesium compounds are of two kinds - reactions of substitution and reactions of addition.
Victor Grignard -
Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.
Daniel Day-Lewis
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I'd like us to deliver a little message to all the men still out there who think it's the '50s, and coming home simply means watching television with a beer.
Patricia Richardson -
I have worked hard since my childhood and worked as a labourer. I put my mind and heart into it.
Narendra Modi -
History, whether sacred or profane, hides her teaching from those who study her through coloured glasses. She only reveals truth to those who look through the cold clear medium of passionless inquiry, who seek the Truth without determining first the masquerade in which alone they will receive it.
Sabine Baring-Gould -
My kids are in school and in all these clubs - chess club, fashion club, you name it. When my dad came home from work, it was late, and when he left, it was early in the morning. On my days off, I'm still taking my kids to school and picking them up. I do what I have to do to keep that relationship.
Omar Dorsey -
When my dad, Tommy Tucker Kelly, was about six, he started out with his dad on 'The Black and White Minstrel' Shows.
Rachel Tucker -
Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.
Oscar Wilde
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I never got into coffee.
Marisa Tomei -
Aren't we all dreamers? It's only because man dreamt of flying that we are travelling in planes. Behind all inventions, we see the dreams of people.
Ajith Kumar -
I had relatives who would go to Japan and bring back random stuff they bought at the airport or whatever - 'Ultraman' and 'Speed Racer,' stuff like that.
Adrian Tomine -
We're still in the early stages (of recovery). The market is still suffering from excess capacity on the North Atlantic.
Chris Avery -
I feel completely fearless when I'm on stage. And also totally fearful. There's the fear that I'm not making a very smart career move sometimes, but there's the stronger belief that these things need to be said.
Andy Kindler -
Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles.
Jean Toomer