Thomas Wentworth Higginson Quotes
Travelers find virtue in a seeming minority in all other countries, and forget that they have left it in a minority at home.
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I have worked with some great directors.
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Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that.
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Clearly, humans will always have a role to play in emergency response for law enforcement. But if there's an emergency, if there's a 911 call, the question is, do you want a human dashing off to respond to it right away?
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I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
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It's a huge step up from the European Indoor Championships to being world outdoor gold medallist.
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The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
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Clothes are not frippery. Properly done, they can be an art form.
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I don't have to be making a lot of money or living in a fancy house.
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Wes Craven is obviously a horror film icon so I was definitely very interested in bringing something back to life that Wes had created.
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Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
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For people worried about the Great Recession and the uncertainty of what is coming next, the characters of 'Mad Men' are good company.
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Survival was my only hope, success my only revenge.
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Ninety percent of them artists in general are forgotten ten minutes after they’re dead.
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My character is not flawless.
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I go to an all-Hawaiian school, and we learn everything about being Hawaiian. We have a really deep respect for the water and the land. We say, 'mauka to makai,' mountains to ocean. I believe if you take care of the ocean, the ocean will take care of you in return.
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I feel uncomfortable because I'm insecure about who I am.
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I was excited by the process of Pandora, which I still think is a decent product. Not as great in actuality as it sounds. After the first hour, its weaknesses start to show up.
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I grew up in Chelsea on 22nd Street... I am really a native New Yorker.
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Of course, plenty of people don't think that guaranteeing affordable health insurance is a core responsibility of government.
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The older I get the more I'm convinced that it's the purpose of politicians and journalists to say the world is very simple, whereas it's the purpose of historians to say, 'No! It's very complicated.' The job of the historian is to help give people a sense of existence in time, without which we are really not fully human.
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This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.
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It's harder, but we're still finding oil in Oklahoma today. The bar has been raised on startup companies, but it can still be done. Every regulation and every rule limits you, but, yes, it can still be done. That's the beauty of living in a free country and having the freedom to have an idea and become an entrepreneur.
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All the people in Korea are cheering me like I'm a gold medalist or something, so I have a responsibility to my country.
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Travelers find virtue in a seeming minority in all other countries, and forget that they have left it in a minority at home.
