Ida B. Wells Quotes
Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so.
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I am not a designer that buys vintage to be inspired.
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Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
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I live alone, so I don't really talk to anyone once I'm home. I have some silent nights.
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I will keep working hard!
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In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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I've never considered myself to be a fashionista type of guy.
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Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between people.
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It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
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When I make a live-action movie, it's a very physical process. It's like running a marathon.
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I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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I went from buying my own condominium and a car for myself when I was 17 on 'The Facts of Life' to not being able to pay my rent. I was at the unemployment office all the time. I had to sell my record collection just to make ends meet. And then I started getting these voice-over jobs.
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Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
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I was this kid who had been raised in New York, and now all of a sudden, my mother decided that she was a Jewish divorcee and therefore she should be living in Miami Beach.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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If I don't get healthy food, my staff cooks for me.
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I was not the pampered baby, no. I'm five years younger, and my parents were actually very strict with me, more strict than with the other ones.
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In my personal life, I really like the look of vests. I wear fitted, business ones, and perfectly preppy sweater vests that I can knit myself.
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In a way, Jersey really supports rock, maybe more than New York City and Long Island. I know plenty of bands that tour and do much better at Starland or other clubs in New Jersey than others in the tri-state area.
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The two endorsements I'm most proud of come from Isabel Wilkerson and Toni Morrison. The latter is the greatest American fiction writer of our time, and the former is on her way to being the greatest American nonfiction writer of our time.
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Television and cable have become the new independent films, in a sense, for writers and actors to gravitate towards. That's why I like short films, too; I love doing readings, audio books, working with young filmmakers; anything that keeps you from getting blase about yourself or in a rut.
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I don't believe in luck. Not in golf, anyway. There are good bounces and bad bounces, sure, but the ball is round and so is the hole. If you find yourself in a position where you hope for luck to pull you through, you're in serious trouble.
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Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so.
