Francis J. Grimke Quotes
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I'm not the type of person to have a schadenfreude.
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I like to take walks in the park by myself, where no one can bother me and I can think.
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I think the silences we have on some issues are inductive of the fact that we need to write about them more, but I think there are some issues you have to write in a sensitive way and in a way that respects the reality of the situation. If you can't do that, you should leave them alone.
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I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.
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I love creative people.
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I like it when I am in the middle; I am closer to the ball. The manager wants me to pass, to make assists, create chances, and I do more because I think the position is more central, and I don't ask all the time for the ball at my feet.
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My father will never say no to a character, as I never go to him and talk about a character for which he won't give the nod.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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Of course all novelists are egomaniacs and want to draw everyone to their fold just like any other preacher. The snake-oil peddler, the false prophet, all of this is fascinating to me. But I certainly hope that I'm more humane than that.
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I'd never want to do something just for the show of it.
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Anyone who creates something new or does something different artistically is going to be singled out.
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I've heard things said on football pitches that players clearly don't mean, whether it's racism or just an abusive comment in the heat of the moment.
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Denying our courts the ability to hear oil-related cases of great consequence to our environment and our economy is completely the wrong direction to protect the rights of Floridians.
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I've been an assistant for seven years now and I haven't had one head coaching interview. I'm doing something wrong.
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Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.
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In my opinion, nothing changes after you get married. If ain't broke, don't fix it.
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In The Name of the King is the right title. To be honest, I don't know who had the final idea for the title but I liked it and it has a strong connection to the movie's story.
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I think that as a poet, I am always concerned about history and baring witness to history. But so often, it's through the research that I do, the reading.
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China has leapfrogged into this information age, and Web users have grown very significantly, which knocked down the cost of doing the environmental transparency.
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There is something really mysterious about lions. They could rip you apart if they wanted to, but at the same time they look so cuddly. Can you imagine what humans look like to animals? They must think we're so weird.
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You have to answer the question, like it or not. And the questions deserve a valid legal response, even if the response isn't one that will be easily understood. You have an obligation as a member of the court to do what you are bound to do under federal law, even if it isn't an attractive resolution from a public standpoint.
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What I most want you to understand is that your body is continuously and convincingly sending messages to your brain, and you get to control the content of those messages.
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My personal experience has only discovered two classes of people in China; Cynics who despise love and cowards who are afraid of it.
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Race prejudice can't be talked down, it must be lived down.
