Josephine Baker Quotes
Let us stop saying 'white Americans' and 'colored Americans,' let us try once and for all saying... Americans. Let human beings be equal on Earth as in Heaven.
Quotes to Explore
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Love is the strongest and most fragile thing we have in life.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
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I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing.
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We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn.
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Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.
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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.
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I think it's always funny when somebody thinks you're going to do something super sexy and then you don't.
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The coming of honor or disgrace must be a reflection of one's inner power.
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We've all heard it: vegans are cool and plant-based dining is hot. What other diet can promise to keep you trim without working at it, clear clogged arteries, save the lives of animals, and do more to stem climate change than driving a Prius-or not driving at all?
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Many hooligans discover to their shame that they have scruples; they have roots and, greatest disadvantage of all, they have hope. The fathers superior of the order do not try to influence their children in Satan; they merely shake their heads in sorrow. They know that the apostate must work out his own damnation.
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It was from the artists and poets that the pertinent answers came, and I know that panic would have broken loose had they been able to compare notes. As it was, lacking their original letters, I half suspected the compiler of having asked leading questions, or of having edited the correspondence in corroboration of what he had latently resolved to see.
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One may well use one’s head even though one is in love. Someone has said that one cannot prevent lightening from striking – but one may prevent the whole town from burning down.
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Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est. (Applaud, my friends, the comedy is over.)
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I'm always learning from experiences because each one is different and there are different players involved in the project at the time with their own way of doing things.
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Love begets love; and thus the love of Christ displayed upon the cross woos and wins the sinner and binds him repenting to the cross, believing and adoring the matchless depths of a Saviour's love.
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Perhaps because my background is theatrical, I have a great affinity with the classics. Hamlet has always been a character of great interest to me and a character I would really love to play. Or a character in a Tennessee Williams play, maybe Tom in 'The Glass Menagerie.'
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Growth does not bring any 'automatic' improvement in the health component of wellbeing.
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No matter how difficult the trial... we can take comfort in knowing that others before us have borne life's most grievous trials and tragedies by looking to heaven.
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A man needs a little madness, or else… he never dares cut the rope and be free.
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Glamour is something you can't bear to be without once you're used to it.
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That traveling man was a two time lover, he took my love, then he took my mother.
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Let us stop saying 'white Americans' and 'colored Americans,' let us try once and for all saying... Americans. Let human beings be equal on Earth as in Heaven.
