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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One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
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I mix everything up. A museum curator once said to me that there is a great jazz component to the way I do things because good jazz is improvisation and draws elements from all different cultures. And that's the way I do everything - the way I dress and decorate.
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For a long time, I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up. I was desperate to find something that fit me and I just decided that if I could organically make a professional living out of the things that interested me, then I would be a happy person.
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Sometimes you just stumble into something that works, and here I am a quarter of a century later.
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I don't consider myself a musician. I'm an artist.
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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.
