Paul Robeson Quotes
The faces and the tactics of the leaders may change every four years, or two, or one, but the people go on forever.
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My experience growing up in a rough and tumble town in the blue-collar world of Western Pennsylvania in the 1970s was that anything a man did was always more important than anything a woman did.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.
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I take my Bible with me, sometimes two of them, when I travel.
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I never dreamt, in my dream, I'm Dalai Lama.
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For me, one of the downfalls of electronic music is that it can feel a little soulless or robotic.
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Even if the music industry simply gave away all their music people would complain that they don't have the bandwidth to download all the stuff - the problem would merely shift from availability to distribution.
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I was always able to get money, but now it's a little bit more money, and I manage the same way. I just want to see my family do better.
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People think that, when you're doing comedy, nothing means anything, that people run around and act crazy. It's quite the opposite. The stakes are life-and-death.
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I remember auditioning for the Wonder Woman television show and being told that I wasn't the Wonder Woman type, but if I wanted to play the best friend, I could audition for that.
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I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.
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I don't think France is a racist country, I really don't, but we do still have many problems with our immigrant past, and there's a shame that goes with that, that works both ways, in the host and in the post-immigrant generation.
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There was a sadness over me, a melancholy. That's always been a part of me – those are some of the things that lead you to the arts.
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'Green Garden' is about beauty and joy and lush green and dance and excitement and smiling from within.
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It's always overwhelming when you come to another country and you're embraced in such a positive way.
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People love to interact in real time, whether it is with each other or with content.
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The measure of a decent human being is how he or she treats the defenseless.
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My dad's a doctor, and he'd watch 'Grey's Anatomy,' and he'd be like, 'This is not okay. This isn't what it's like.' And we're like, 'Shut up, it's not about that. That's not why we're watching it.'
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I've been in this business for a long time, and I no longer think that anything that I do by way of clarification is ever going to eradicate the mistakes.
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Because of the lack of interoperability, we can lose billions of dollars in productivity.
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The faces and the tactics of the leaders may change every four years, or two, or one, but the people go on forever.
