William H. Seward Quotes
I speak on due consideration because Britain, France, and Mexico, have abolished slavery, and all other European states are preparing to abolish it as speedily as they can.
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We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.
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I went to a woman for advice about how to be in business, but I learned a great deal from men.
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The intricacies, the problems, the trials and tribulations in relationships inspire me to give words to people's journeys.
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I don't think what I look like is relevant.
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You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.
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As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.
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I'm trying to sell every audience something; that something is me.
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For as long as I could remember, the person in E23 pasted the same Halloween decoration, a witch with a giant wart on her crone's nose, but whenever kids rang, the tenant wouldn't answer. At first, kids figured they'd just missed the guy: bad timing. But it seemed impossible that all of us missed him every year.
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I don't mind a bikini bottom.
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Popular culture - above all rock 'n' roll, with its African-American R & B roots - did far more to radicalize us than did any feminist leader.
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Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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I've always been an actor, a lowly actor without power, so I've never been corrupted. I've never even directed.
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Death is a zero sum game for which there is no cure.
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Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
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No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.
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My birthday is Feb. 11, and I'm both excited and not excited by it. You'll never be 15 again, and you really, really need to savor every day like it's your last.
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As long as I love Beauty I am young.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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Some of his neighbors found out what I was doing and offered him fatherly advice. It was dangerous to educate slaves, they warned. Education made blacks dissatisfied with slavery. It spoiled them for field work. The Methodist minister said it made them disobedient, made them want more than the Lord intended them to have.
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There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.
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Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh!
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Formats are going to change because this is what the people want. It's not what the labels want.
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I speak on due consideration because Britain, France, and Mexico, have abolished slavery, and all other European states are preparing to abolish it as speedily as they can.
