William Graham Sumner Quotes
It is the greatest folly of which a man can be capable to sit down with a slate and pencil to plan out a new social world.
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.
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I'm as radical as libertarians come.
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You can celebrate the female form in comfort. We left corsets behind in the dark ages, so why bring them back now?
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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After the 9/11 incidents, Islam has become a big question mark among westerners, especially Americans. The mass media constantly raise the issue of relationship between Islam and terrorism.
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When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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'Rent,' for me, was a significant time in my life because it was my first break. It was my first professional job. I also met my husband in that cast, Taye Diggs.
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The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.
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There have been moments in my career when I've had to be tough and I've had to step up to the plate - but usually that's because a man has underestimated me. But other than that, I wouldn't say I'm a tough person.
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But I have fun with the fright, work with it. You have to - that's your timing, that beat of excitement. And when I go on stage, it's just like taking a step into heaven. Poof, you know? Poof - and there I am.
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Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had
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Social media has colonized what was once a sacred space occupied by emptiness: the space reserved for thought and creativity.
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I love writing Christmas stories, especially of the historical variety.
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So it's mainly a question of helping the Third World overcome the effects of global warming.
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I feel the need of relations and friendship, of affection, of friendly intercourse.... I cannot miss these things without feeling, as does any other intelligent man, a void and a deep need.
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It is the greatest folly of which a man can be capable to sit down with a slate and pencil to plan out a new social world.
