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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Perfection is only an ideal for man; it cannot be attained, for man is made imperfect.
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When you are a strong woman, you will attract trouble. When a man feels threatened, there is always trouble.
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What could be said about me...a man to whom only his painting matters? And of course his garden and his flowers as well.
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Photographs, it seems to me, are both moments in time and bits of memory.
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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.
