Ray Stannard Baker Quotes
Every argument on lynching in the South gets back sooner or later to the question of rape.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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When I produce a movie - and I've produced a number of movies, unlike Arnold - yes, I'm frustrated when the union says you can't do this, you can't work past that hour, you've got to break for lunch. But ultimately, they're right. What they do is for everyone's benefit.
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People are not perfect... very often the relationships that are strongest are those where people have worked through big crises, but they've had to work through them. So the challenge to us is to work through that.
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.
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My normal life is like being on holiday.
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It turns out that globalisation, while promising sameness through brand-name consumption, was fostering, through uneven economic growth, an intense feeling of difference.
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Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime.
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My mother lived till she was 95 and never had a line on her face or a frown line. She was beautiful.
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I am very sorry to say that I rejoiced when I once more perceived the towers of Windsor behind me.
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But I just loved looking at the clothes of the '70s.
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I have more pet peeves than anybody: people talking in the movie theater, people eating in the movie theater loudly, people being rude, people making noise when you're supposed to be asleep, like drilling noises outside. I could be here all day.
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No one could understand the bond between me and my brother. I struggled to understand the forces that drove his soul in one direction and mine in another.
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Rogue regimes never respond to anything less than hardball.
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To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham.
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Find me in the shadows, and pull the shades down until tomorrow.
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It's just interesting that people don't really know about the roles that I play that are darker. I kind of do a huge blend of really big light things but also really dark indie things, and it just sort of happens to work out that way.
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I'm all about accessing our resources; I'm all about those jobs. But I want to make sure I'm not expensing one for the other.
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In 2005, attorneys general of 35 states urged the Federal Reserve to end the unsigned check system.
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Acted drama requires surrender of one's self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops.
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I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.
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We had about 23 guys in the astronaut office and they would have all killed to be on that first flight.
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Every argument on lynching in the South gets back sooner or later to the question of rape.
