Ida B. Wells Quotes
The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.
Ida B. Wells
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Live TV would terrify anybody.
Hannah Simone
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
Otto von Bismarck
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I do a lot of speaking about energy and environment. But that's more a second job than a hobby. Hobby-wise, I love the outdoors - hiking, biking, kayaking, swimming, scuba diving. Because I spend almost all of my life in front of a screen, time in nature is especially important, I think.
Ramez Naam
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I started calling myself the Pied Piper, when I started using the flute sound in my music.
R. Kelly
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
Ted Turner
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When I was 14, I was a passenger in a terrible accident.
Quincy Jones
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I'm lucky in that I don't like sweet things at all. My father loved cakes to such a degree that he kept forcing them down my throat when I was little, and it put me off for life. He had terrible cholesterol, poor thing.
Felicity Kendal
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Well, logos is science or reason, something that helps us to function practically and effectively in the world, and it must therefore be closely in tune and reflect accurately the realities of the world around us.
Karen Armstrong
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Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.
Walt Whitman
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I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.
Lance Bass
NSYNC
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I graduated from UC San Diego, wanted to work in film to get my hands-on real experience, did music videos, TV, feature films, all kinds of stuff.
Ziad Doueiri
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What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.
Oprah Winfrey
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No matter what his crimes were, Alton Sterling did not deserve to be executed for them. Look, guys, the punishment for resisting arrest shouldn't be death. The punishment for selling bootleg CDs shouldn't be death. The punishment for having a gun in an open-carry state shouldn't be death. The punishment for being a black man shouldn't be death.
Larry Wilmore
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Taste is one of the five senses, and the man who tells us with priggish pride that he does not care what he eats is merely boasting of his sad deficiency: he might as well be proud of being deaf or blind, or, owing to a perpetual cold in the head, of being devoid of the sense of smell.
E. F. Benson
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What I mean by living to one's self is living in the world, as in it, not of it.
William Hazlitt
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We need to care enough to connect, to put ourselves at emotional risk and play one note worth hearing.
Seth Godin
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The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.
Ida B. Wells
