William Wells Brown Quotes
I would have the Constitution torn in shreds and scattered to the four winds of heaven. Let us destroy the Constitution and build on its ruins the temple of liberty. I have brothers in slavery. I have seen chains placed on their limbs and beheld them captive.
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My father got me involved in the game when I was four years old.
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My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
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I'd like to be remembered as one who kept my priorities in the right order.
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So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.
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What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells.
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Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
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Pneumonia is a disease that often flies under the radar of not just the public but even the global health community. It kills more children under 5 years old every year than AIDS, malaria, and measles combined.
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Life is not about dwelling on the bad.
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Yoghurt cuts sweetness and richness, tempers spice, and makes a dish sing.
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I just tend to do things to myself that I don't realize I'm doing. Sometimes I bite my lip so that it splits and hurts, and yet I can't stop. And sometimes I'd play shows on the last run, I'd scratch my neck while I was singing, and I'd horrified to see these red streaks of blood after.
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We tend to pay attention to that which is the most current on our radar screen.
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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.
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No characters in 'Stay Close,' including the leads, are black and white. I want them to be grey. I think that makes for a much more interesting reading experience, something that will stay with you a little bit longer.
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Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.
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The Obama administration has been weak and inconsistent in enforcing immigration laws.
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I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.
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I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.
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I don't sleep well. I rehash everything in bed. The mind's still working.
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I've always been a bit of a documentarian.
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But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation.
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At moments of great enthusiasm it seems to me that no one in the world has ever made something this beautiful and important.
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I would have the Constitution torn in shreds and scattered to the four winds of heaven. Let us destroy the Constitution and build on its ruins the temple of liberty. I have brothers in slavery. I have seen chains placed on their limbs and beheld them captive.
