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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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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Find me in the shadows, and pull the shades down until tomorrow.
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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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I didn't know how capable I was until the people around me in acting school would say I was good.
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To be honest, I used to always procrastinate when I write. I mean, I love writing, but I hate it.
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They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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I don't think that it would make the slightest difference to life and to the aspects of life that interest me if we could go to the moon tomorrow, because I think what really makes life interesting is the big question "Why?"
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Anyone who thinks they can write the perfect comedy that everyone will love is a fool. I can only write what I think is funny and hope that there is a likeminded audience out there.
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It's all but shelved at this point ... pretty much all the research we've talked about is in peril.
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Every argument on lynching in the South gets back sooner or later to the question of rape.
