Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
Diversified interests must exist in every community, and that system which is best calculated to promote the general interest is the one which should be adopted and adhered to with fidelity.
Sam Houston -
I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.
Malcolm Wilson -
If you look at NBC, two of their most successful shows - '30 Rock' and 'Parks And Rec' - are written by women, produced by women, and I think that's the future. Women are the new men.
Natasha Leggero -
One of the things I did when I was in New York, which has a wonderful deaf community, is I have worked on making Broadway more accessible to deaf people.
Camryn Manheim -
I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated.
Jackson Browne
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I think I'm a pretty well-kept secret.
R. A. Salvatore -
I would see anything by Antony Gormley.
Kate Fleetwood -
Either war is obsolete, or men are.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
I'm not going to lie; the most fun of writing these books is just saying, 'Where am I going to write about? Let me go there!'
Dan Brown -
The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must.
Carl Van Vechten -
I want to see one of my products being taken by people across the world. I want to see them improving and leading a better life. It's like playing God.
Kallam Anji Reddy
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Do you know why dogs are man's best friend? It's because they're not in politics.
Yitzhak Navon -
My eye is ever on those who love me.
Sai Baba -
I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.
Carl Sandburg -
People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph.
Walt Disney -
Our company sells about five to six million pounds of sausage a year. We sell it retail and to restaurants. We've got all kinds of products.
Earl Campbell -
On almost every environmental issue I care about, in fact, I've been wrong at one point or another. I used to think that climate change was no big deal, that most environmental problems were massive exaggerations, that oil reserves were effectively unlimited, and more.
Ramez Naam
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Ah... romance to me is spontaneity. It's not diamond earrings; it's a bunch of daffodils that's freshly picked from the field.
Kate Winslet -
Understanding where to be in your own zone really takes some time and development to learn.
Patrick Kane -
If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.
Gary Shteyngart -
Self-contemplation is apt to end in self-conceit.
Henry Ward Beecher