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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I've received many good pieces of advice throughout my life.
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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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I have struggled with identity all my life. It's not like something that just happened last week.
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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 thought I was an old soul, and that I knew life, but then starting the real life, I figured I am completely new.
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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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I think people are very stiff. Money makes people stiff, and we want it, and we have to pay the penalty. I never agreed with stiffness. I think people have an understanding of what their life is. I define success by being a realist and not humiliating people. I'm a revolutionary - but not in the political sense.
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I was going through the motions of life, instead of really living, and there’s no excuse for that. It’s not something I’ll let happen to me again.
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There is not a single outward mark of courtesy that does not have a deep moral basis.
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Art is not just to show life as it is, but to show life as it should be.
