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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I am just one of the overwhelming majority of Americans who is responsible and hard-working and at one point in their life benefited greatly from government programs such as student loans, Medicare, and Social Security.
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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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It sounds cheesy, but if you feel good about yourself, it's going to show on the outside.
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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've spent my whole life in Chicago being asked where am I from, so that I have a sense of displacement that also is very psychologically disorienting.
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Boxing is the embodiment of who I am, but beyond that, this is a journey of the self, and my obsession to get the most from this short life.
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But it's a poor church that cares only for what happens to a soul after it leaves this life.
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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.
