Harriet Ann Jacobs Quotes
If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls.Harriet Ann Jacobs
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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
Carl Sandburg -
I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam.
Jack Irons Pearl Jam -
At the end of the day, don't forget that you're a person, don't forget you're a mother, don't forget you're a wife, don't forget you're a daughter.
Indra Nooyi -
Acting is something different to everybody. I just know that if you watch an actor or actress getting better and better, I think that's them just understanding themselves better and better.
Cameron Diaz -
I love doing what I do. I love asking questions. I love being in the mix.
Larry King -
In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.
Ted Nelson
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I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.
Laura Mvula -
The bottom line is, I want us to rebound, defend, share the ball, play hard. That's all. Now if you can't do that, if that's not important enough to you, it's not on me.
Larry Brown -
Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.
Olive Schreiner -
It wasn't always easy getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to go to the rink. Sometimes I wanted to just go back to sleep.
Nancy Kerrigan -
Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.
Warren Buffett -
I remember starting out and covering songs.
Bebe Rexha
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I'd long wanted to write about that moment when a woman steps off the career track to have her first child. For me, that was a scary time.
Hallie Ephron -
I never said I was a genius.
Orson Welles -
Hockey, honestly, was my first love. The excitement, the fast pace, the intensity of the game... I still love it to this day.
J. J. Watt -
The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.
Kate Adie -
The actual, original 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' I have vague memories of because I was pretty small, but I loved, loved, loved it. I have only those weird, visceral little-kid memories: I remember the extreme flat, two dimensional green that was their skin or the weird pizza with no sauce - it was just like yellow, drippy cheese.
Mae Whitman -
Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.
Bailey Chase
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Thanks be unto God which always causeth us to triumph in Christ!
Hannah Whitall Smith -
I want to do a big Broadway musical, at some point. I would love to do that. To do something there would be super-cool.
Lara Pulver -
That's the great thing about Apple: it's very focused on the things that we know how to do very well and not try to extend ourselves to areas that we know very little about or don't have a lot of expertise in.
Eddy Cue -
You smile upon your friend to-day, To-day his ills are over; You hearken to the lover's say, And happy is the lover. 'Tis late to hearken, late to smile, But better late than never: I shall have lived a little while Before I die for ever.
A. E. Housman -
In this instance of the fire-arms, the Asiatic has been most improperly bracketed with the native. The British Indian does not need any such restrictions as are imposed by the Bill on the natives regarding the carrying of fire-arms. The prominent race can remain so by preventing the native from arming himself. Is there a slightest vestige of justification for so preventing the British Indian?
Mahatma Gandhi -
If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls.
Harriet Ann Jacobs