Paul Robeson Quotes
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I always try to see the good in everything, and that gives me strength. Even when I lost in the London Olympics quarterfinals, I said to myself, 'Don't lose heart, God has his own plans.' Actually, life just goes on; you have to accept whatever challenge you face and become stronger.
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The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
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I do not see myself, I never make plans, I never set goals, and I never do that kind of stuff; I don't like to futurize, I barely know what I will do tomorrow, and because there is a working plan here, I've never futurized because life always surprises me with things even better.
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Life is one long jubilee.
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Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.
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Young players need to know how to take care of themselves for life after baseball.
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You have to accept the storms and the rainy days and the things in life that you sometimes don't want to face.
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To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
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I planned so well for my post-'Cosby Show' life that I don't have to make desperate acting choices that conflict with what my values.
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I was born and raised in Vancouver. I moved to Beijing in 2010 just before the Olympics. Being an Asian Canadian actor, the amount of opportunity at the time was slim to none. I made the decision to go to China, and it was one of the best decisions of my life.
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The Clinton tax increase - which was an increase in taxes primarily on upper-income people - not only made the tax code more nearly progressive, it preceded one of the most productive economic periods in American life.
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'The Lady's World' should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women's opinions on all subjects of literature, art and modern life, and yet it should be a magazine that men could read with pleasure.
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Something I stand for is being brave enough to invest in creative ideas that I firmly believe in and bringing those to life.
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My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity.
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I'm a proud American - becoming a citizen in 1988 was one of the most profoundly moving occasions in my life; I'm a former Texan and a recent Californian.
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Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink.
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It goes without saying that the normal durability of fixed capital is calculated on the supposition that all the conditions under which it can perform its functions normally during that time are fulfilled, just as we assume, in placing a mans life at 30 years on the average,that he will wash himself.
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Censors are dead men set up to judge between life and death. For no live, sunny man would be a censor, he'd just laugh.
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Real life is often sloppy, tragic, ugly, embarrassing, unglamorous, and not made for TV.
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At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.
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Few words in any language carry such a load of meaning as 'honor.' It is an old word, unchanged even in its spelling from classical Latin to modern English. Spoken or written, it does not seem to require much explanation; most people think they know what it means.
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I first read about hypnotism at school, and I used to do tricks like getting a really skinny guy to arm wrestle the local bully.
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After doing extensive research, I can definitely tell you that single malt whiskies are good to drink.
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Art is not just to show life as it is, but to show life as it should be.
