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.
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Live TV would terrify anybody.
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
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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.
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I started calling myself the Pied Piper, when I started using the flute sound in my music.
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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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When I was 14, I was a passenger in a terrible accident.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.
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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.
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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.
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Always write as if you are talking to someone. It works. Don't put on any fancy phrases or accents or things you wouldn't say in real life.
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We are so blessed to be here in America. We have freedom and opportunity unlike anywhere else in the world.
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I'm just really, really thankful. I'm thankful to the doctors; I'm thankful to the family that donated the kidney.
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Yeah, I'd like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.
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I used to try to pick locks because I grew up on my grandparents' farm and I started my own little spy club. I would go around the farm and try to break into the shed and try spying on my grandpa. It was ridiculous.
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While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.
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If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is of no more authority than any other uninspired volume, how is it that the book is what it is?
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Whatever you do, don't discourage your dreaming propensity. Your heart's desires are not empty vaporings. They foreshadow possible realities. Man was made to aspire, to look upward.
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Should graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that.
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When the machine had been fastened with a wire to the track, so that it could not start until released by the operator, and the motor had been run to make sure that it was in condition, we tossed a coin to decide who should have the first trial. Wilbur won.
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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.
