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.Ray Stannard Baker
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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.
Damon Galgut -
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.
Abhishek Bachchan -
Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
Wendell Phillips -
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.
Orhan Pamuk -
I hope there are going to be plenty of more roles to come.
Maisie Williams -
Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.
D. H. Lawrence
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There are 3 billion women in the world, so there are 3 billion ways to be a feminist.
Caitlin Moran -
You'd be surprised how addicting high self-esteem is.
Fergie The Black Eyed Peas -
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.
Larry Holmes -
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.
W. H. Davies -
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.
Kangana Ranaut -
Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
Samuel Johnson
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Why do they cover Paul's songs but never mine?
Yoko Ono -
Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.
Jack Kemp -
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.
Mackenzie Astin -
That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.
Abraham Lincoln -
There's a certain freedom in writing when you don't know if you'll ever have an audience.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh -
That's usually how I get to know strangers - get inappropriately touchy. Once they've experienced the awkwardness of you being way too close for comfort, after that, it all gets easy.
Natasha Lyonne
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I'm the most out-of-work actor I know. In the last two years I've basically taken meetings for a living.
Macaulay Culkin -
First, I was opposed to gay marriage because it seemed like one more way that gays were wanting to assimilate. When I realized the Christian right was so opposed to it, as well as tyrannical governments in Africa and Russia, I thought, 'It must be a good thing to fight for.'
Edmund White -
There are many, many difficult times, god knows. If a person wants to stand on her own two feet, I recommend undertaking the care and feeding of something. It could be children, or it could be house plants, you know? By doing that you come to understand your own limitations. That's where it starts.
Banana Yoshimoto -
Every woman in America has a French dream in her head, especially a Parisian one.
Catherine Malandrino -
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.
Ray Stannard Baker