Ray Stannard Baker Quotes
But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob; it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right.
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Actors are always the last to see what they have created.
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day - go to any Washington or New York dinner party where real journalists are present, and you will hear discussion of leaked or classified information. That is journalists' job in a free society.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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I think I can get away, sometimes, with walking in the streets and not getting noticed. I like that. I want my work to get noticed, not me. And it's slowly getting there, which is good.
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Through the wholesale destruction of the representatives of a class that from the beginning of history had been the directing and creative force in civilization, a process began which was almost mechanical.
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Whatever you do needs to be sustainable over time, and taking the money in the short term and taking it in a bubble - like buying an Internet stock in 2000 - may not be sustainable.
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One immutable trait of the gullible is that they are credulous to a fault. Though no-doubt well-meaning, the naive are Trump's base.
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Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites.
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All fighters are prostitutes and all promoters are pimps.
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It's a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody's arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere.
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I did not set out to be a poster child for anything. I saw a mountain. I wanted to climb it.
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I want to let my fans get to know a little about me. I'm very thankful for everything they've done for me so, of course, I'm going to let them into my world a bit. But I really am a very private person, and I love kepping my life to myself - that's how I've always been.
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The Sin Washer had died centuries ago, and His legacy seemed often to be in the accumulation of connections and power more than the distribution of emotional or spiritual ease. She kept that thought to herself. Wisdom came in many forms, and silence was often the most useful.
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Quotation, n. The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. The words erroneously repeated.
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If I hadn't have had music in my life, it's quite possible I could be in here. Or nor even in here, be dead - and I'd much rather be alive.
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Up to a certain point it is good for us to know that there are people in the world who will give us love and unquestioned loyalty to the limit of their ability. I doubt, however, if it is good for us to feel assured of this without the accompanying obligation of having to justify this devotion by our behavior.
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The difference between relief pitching when I did it today is simple, there is too much of it. It's one of those cases where more is not necessarily better.
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Well first of all, I'd just like to say that 2005 was a great year, if you like swimming through crap.
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Some people will go for the quick joke and not pay attention to the consequences.
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There's no reward without work, no victory without effort, no battle won without risk.
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When there are conflicts of observation, when experiments cannot be replicated, scientists may then retreat to a study of the various specific observations so as to explain the conflict, in the course of which they would make use of the concept of observation, or of some specification of that concept.
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Every time you touch those who have power over the media, they seek to stop you.
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But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob; it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right.
