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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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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I have an older son, Josh, and growing up, he just didn't care that much for baseball. And that was fine. But Chaddie, he always wanted to go to the ballpark. He just kind of took to it right away.
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Broadway was always sort of my trajectory before I found film and television - that would be really tremendous.
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In time of war all countries behave equally badly, because the power of action is handed over to stupid and obstinate men.
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Don't predict disappointment while hope is an option
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Something that comes to us, some gym shoe that comes to us as a result of child labor from a brutal dictatorship, where people do not have basic freedoms, it wouldn't bug me to tax the living Dickens out of that thing or even to forbid its importation whatsoever. But that's a moral question, not an economic question.
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It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.
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It's important to stand up for what you believe in.
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Every argument on lynching in the South gets back sooner or later to the question of rape.
