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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I suffer the mortification of seeing myself attacked right and left by people at home professing patriotism and love of country who never heard the whistle of a hostile bullet. I pity them and the nation dependent on such for its existence. I am thankful, however that, though such people make a great noise, the masses are not like them.
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Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that.
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Two days after returning from Montreal, I was training again, and I went on to win two more golds at the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
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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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What I do is I do my job.
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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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My dad was a Marine. He was one of the Montford Point Marines. Those are the equivalent of the Tuskegee Airmen for Marines. He's a tough, tough guy. When I was 15 we had a fight, and I didn't speak to him for 10 years.
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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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As an athlete, I understood the value of my health insurance. I knew that in my profession, injuries were common and could happen at any time.
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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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Be generous! Give!
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Whales are drinking all our water and eating our sailors.
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Great cities are not like towns, only larger. They are not like suburbs, only denser. They differ from towns and suburbs in basic ways, and one of them is that cities are, by definition, full of strangers.
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We're really not that good. We're overachieving here and there. But the future looks bright.
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It is a false choice to tell Israel that it has to choose between peace on the one hand and security on the other. The United Nations would not ask any other country to make that choice, and it should not ask it of Israel.
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We're not really for anything but a better America, a stronger country. And we do support our soldiers.
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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.
