Timothy Thomas Fortune Quotes
Men may be spoiled by education, even as they are spoiled by illiteracy. Education is the preparation of the mind for future work, hence men should be educated with special reference to the work.
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I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.
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Whenever I visited China in the past, the relationships always felt superficial; there was no time where I felt those moments of conflict and delight that make you feel close to another person. But since I started touring there in 2004, I would always collaborate with local musicians, and that opened up a new level of intimacy.
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I love the smell of Burger King when I ride past, but sometimes I have to avoid it.
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The guys in my band are good friends on and off the stage. The band members that I have now is probably the best band that I have ever had.
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Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world.
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Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
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The people decide who's No. 1, the best in boxing.
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Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.
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I couldn't imagine having to write a paper and have to think about what song I am going to sing.
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But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.
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I've had some threaten not to give Communion to me, even though they don't know my position, just because I'm a Democrat. I've had cardinals refuse to shake my hand because I'm a Democrat.
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The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.
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My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.
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Everybody has a dysfunctional family.
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I love being pushed out of my comfort zone.
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I think being a mother helps keep your feet on the ground. There's very little dignity in parenthood. It's a great leveller.
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It is the duty of every cultured man or woman to read sympathetically the scriptures of the world. If we are to respect others' religions as we would have them respect our own, a friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty.
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One day I started cheating. After that, I started winning everything.
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It's hard for me to view Baltimore outside the context of what Baltimore has always been in my mind: a violent place.
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Ships are but boards, sailors but men; there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves, I mean pirates, and thenthere is the peril of waters, winds, and rocks.
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Men may be spoiled by education, even as they are spoiled by illiteracy. Education is the preparation of the mind for future work, hence men should be educated with special reference to the work.
