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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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 -
Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.
D. H. Lawrence -
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
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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.
W. H. Davies -
Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
Samuel Johnson -
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
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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 -
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 -
The Turkish, Arab and Chinese nationalists who built new nation-states out of the ruins of old empires scorned their old, decrepit rulers as much as they did the foreign imperialists who imposed free trade through gunboats.
Pankaj Mishra -
The Ukrainian community is tight-knit by nature.
Vera Farmiga -
... the current of time slowing down in the gravitational field of oblivion.
W. G. Sebald
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The world is a dangerous place to live.
Albert Einstein -
I've hosted the Soul Train awards, the American Music Awards... and I had my own talk show. So if I can't host by now, what the hell can I do?
Queen Latifah -
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