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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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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Once desire was turned on, combustion gave it a life of its own. Once it was turned on it became a raging wildfire, uncontrollable and uncontainable, the type of conflagration that had to be allowed to burn itself out.
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Every young person has to bear the burden - heavier in proportion as the individuality is richer - of accommodating himself to existence now that it is no longer seen with the eyes of a child, the eyes to which everything is as it should be.
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All of us should have free choice when it comes to patriotic displays... a government wisely acting within its bounds will earn loyalty and respect from its citizens. A government dare not demand the same.
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I always think back to my high school days and realize all the people who were so popular then are nowhere now and all the people who were steadfast and steady-going are somewhere. So high school doesn't necessarily translate to later in life.
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There are no conditions in which we subordinate the interests of the class as a whole to the interests of any sect, any chapel, any separate organization.
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Race prejudice can't be talked down, it must be lived down.
