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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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 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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It's always overwhelming when you come to another country and you're embraced in such a positive way.
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Did people think I sounded black? Totally, but that was a marketing tool as well, but also this is how I grew up and these are my influences.
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One of Kuhn's marvellous legacies is science studies as we know it today.
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As an actor, you think to yourself, 'I want to do good work,' but you also want the work that you do to make an impact in some way.
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Couture occupies the uppermost stratosphere of fashion. It is the holy of holies, as only about 2,000 women globally are fortunate enough to wear these precious garments tailored to their exact measurements, making it perhaps the most exclusive club in the world.
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If you don't know your worth, if you don't know your value, if you don't know how fantabulous you are - it's going to be hard for other people to see it. Being appreciative of self is beauty to me.
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I like to encourage young talented writers to try and help them get published and so forth, but that's all. That's the best I can do.
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The Bahamas is headed for unprecedented economic activity.
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It's really important to recognize that family life in America has changed pretty dramatically.
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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.
