Paul Robeson Quotes
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I didn't want to leave Newcastle, but that's football.
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I think it's time we all agree that gender stereotypes are simply the confabulation of our own mind.
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I love dessert. All kinds. But there's something about ice cream that makes me happy. I am drawn to its simplicity. I am perplexed by the endless supply of constantly growing flavor options. And I am always in the mood for sprinkles and a sugar cone.
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I kind of do think of myself as a superhero and just flying high, and doing these crazy flips.
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I was raised in an orthodox Jewish home where it was expected that, as a woman, I'd marry an investment banker, raise kids in the suburbs and go to temple. I wasn't raised to set the world on fire.
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We have said that Israel has had a very bad history with the United Nations, and whoever cares for himself in Israel distances himself from that Organization.
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Anybody can leap off a building.
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These people are amazing. It's so emotional I was thinking about wearing waterproof mascara.
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There's more than one way to skin a cat. But from the cat's perspective, they all suck. 2.
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How sweet to be a cloudFloating in the blue.
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Every time a man is begotten and born, the clock of human life is wound up anew to repeat once more its same old tune that has already been played innumerable times, movement by movement and measure by measure, with insignificant variations.
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I did an interview where I was asked for the best advice I'd been given. I couldn't think of anything, so I read from the back of a packet of Swan Vestas matches by the phone: 'Keep in a dry place, keep away from children and strike gently away from the body.' They'd written it up without any sense of irony.
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I think a lot of the time in films, men get roles where they create their own destiny and women are just tools, supporters for that.
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Well, I'm directing a lot of television these days.
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To me, this was an oxymoron, doing a painting of a dancer. Dancers are always moving.
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If the sensitive washout has no taste for extreme gestures, total self-destruction, then his hope for singularity rests in his voice. Tone is everything.
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We think the way out of poverty is to view the poor as producers, and the Internet is probably the most efficient tool we have for tapping this capacity. Because you don't need roads. You don't need customs officials who are friendly. You don't need to manage shipping and delivery schedules. You don't have to worry about tariffs.
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My parents' marriage is a gift to everyone around them - 60 years of making their kids laugh. How many parents are actually funny?
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Maybe a part of me recognized how right the improvising spirit of jazz is. Not the sounds, but the freedom to work with musicians who work that way. It felt very natural to me, but I think there's a way to do it without it being a jazz record.
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It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
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It is therefore not to be wondered at that Lincoln's single term in the House of Representatives at Washington added practically nothing to his reputation.
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Introspection, or 'sitting in the silence,' is an unscientific way of trying to force apart the mind and senses, tied together by the life force. The contemplative mind, attempting its return to divinity, is constantly dragged back toward the senses by the life currents.
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The answer to injustice is not to silence the critic but to end the injustice.
