Ray Stannard Baker Quotes
The very first time I was on a car in Atlanta, I saw the conductor - all conductors are white - ask a Negro woman to get up and take a seat farther back in order to make a place for a white man. I have also seen white men requested to leave the Negro section of the car.
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It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.
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My films are of paramount importance to me, the same as my family. That's not going to change. This is a balance I have to strike throughout my life.
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Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
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Just as good books give me the joys of being alive, bad novels depress me, and as I notice this sentiment coming from the pages, I stop. I also do not hesitate to walk out of a movie house if the film is bad.
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I hope there are going to be plenty of more roles to come.
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Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.
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There are 3 billion women in the world, so there are 3 billion ways to be a feminist.
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You'd be surprised how addicting high self-esteem is.
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With a record of 75 fights and 6 losses, some of the losses were very questionable including Brian Nielsen when we fought in Denmark. I knew I won but they didn't give me that fight.
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My impression of Americans from the beginning is of the best, and I have never since had cause to alter my mind. They are a kind, sympathetic race of people and naturally proud of their country.
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Imagine: in the medieval ages, there was no evidence of how the history of mankind has been affected by witchcraft. But there is significant factual history of how brutality and sadism of mankind have been displayed in the most obscene manner in the name of witch-hunt.
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I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.
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Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
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Why do they cover Paul's songs but never mine?
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Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.
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There is a healthy fraternal rivalry, but nothing serious and we both have been looking for a project to do together. I guess he may direct me in a project some day.
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I began taking pictures in the natural world to be able to show people what I was experiencing when I climbed and explored in Yosemite in the High Sierra.
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Going into my 20s, I was uncertain, trying to figure out what my relationship to acting is.
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I understand that Detroit was a pretty rough place to grow up in the '70s and '80s.
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I just want to get on and tell stories.
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My fast is, among other things, meant to qualify me for achieving that equal and selfless love.
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Adolescence is when the very worst and best impulses in the human soul struggle against each other for possession.
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The very first time I was on a car in Atlanta, I saw the conductor - all conductors are white - ask a Negro woman to get up and take a seat farther back in order to make a place for a white man. I have also seen white men requested to leave the Negro section of the car.
