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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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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All the parts I get offered are character and comedy parts, and I probably wouldn't get them if I had a different face. So I'm glad I have a comedy face.
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I wrote 'All You Could Ask For' to honor a friend, Heidi Armitage, who left us much too soon in 2009 at the age of 43.
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The American people are so much stronger, so much more resolved than any enemy can fully understand.
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For if this country... were to make its defense program a function of its domestic employment situation, it would become impossible to conduct a constructive and well-thought out foreign policy or to develop any lasting collaboration.
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What flows into you from myth is not truth but reality (truth is always about something, but reality is that about which truth is), and therefore, every myth becomes the father of innumerable truths on the abstract level.
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A show is like having a climax. It's like having an incredible, natural climax. And then suddenly it's all finished, and you don't know what to do next.
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Race prejudice can't be talked down, it must be lived down.
