Ray Stannard Baker Quotes
Measured by any standard, white or black, Washington must be regarded today as one of the great men of this country: and in the future he will be so honored.
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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
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My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That's what it was driven by for sure.
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I still keep my accent.
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Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.
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My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria, Valerie and Vincent so we'd be V. V.'s, too. But, then when you start getting pets' names that start with a 'v,' it's a little embarrassing.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
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Canada has been a breeding ground for great comedic actors, sketch artists and stand-up comedians. We grew up with a different perspective on the world.
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I've learned that universal acceptance and appreciation is just an unrealistic goal.
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Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
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I'm not too interested in books about India.
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A lot of people glorify and romanticize the idea of being an early bloomer: finding success very early and being a child star. But it can also be quite dangerous.
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Orpheus melted the heart of Persephone, but I never had yours I followed you back to the end of the path, but I never found the door
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Like materialism, consumerism and socialism, transnationalism suffers from the same fatal flaw. It feeds the body and starves the soul. And eventually bored people hear the old calls again.
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The preceding merely defines a way of thinking. But the point is to live.
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You always remember the delicacy of the work you do on a new play - the delicacy and the rigor and the courage.
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Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for 500 years.
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I like how my body feels when I'm in shape; I love how it feels after I work out each day. Fitting in the clothes I like to wear comfortably and living a healthy lifestyle is important to me.
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There is no force more liberating than the knowledge that you are fighting for others.
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The first step to stringing the boss up from a lamppost is saying the boss is a moron.
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What might once have been called whining is now exalted as a process of asserting selfhood; self-absorption is regarded as a form of self-expression.
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Human love is greater than divine love…divine love is at worst an illusion, at best a dream for some imaginary future time. Human love is here and now.
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I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have.
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Measured by any standard, white or black, Washington must be regarded today as one of the great men of this country: and in the future he will be so honored.
