Toussaint Louverture (François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture) Quotes
I have need of Rigaud. He is violent. I want him for carrying on war; and that war is necessary to me.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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It gets very tiring when you are filming and then taken to a room to do school work. I never get any rest time. It is either work or school. Once you are an adult, you get to take a nap in between shots.
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If you have multiples of anything, you have the possibility of repetition. Repetition creates pattern and also unity. Put anyone in a room with a pile of similar objects and say, 'I want a pattern by 3 P.M. or no dinner.' Anyone would come up with a design. It is easy, fun and available to anybody. Most people just don't have the nerve.
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All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering.
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I love 'Scrubs.' It's the best day job in the world.
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I'm pretty good at sticking to what I know. You don't see me social commentating on health-care or presidential debates. I talk about what I know because I'm petrified of being wrong.
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I can get a black eye, a bloody nose. I can have a bad day in the gym. At the end of the day, I don't have a bad payday, and I don't have a bad night under the lights... I get bumps, bruises... but I don't have a bad night.
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Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
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I like the fact that glass ceilings are breaking all over.
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What's right with America and what's right with Islam have a lot in common. At their highest levels, both worldviews reflect an enlightened recognition that all of humankind shares a common Creator - that we are, indeed, brothers and sisters.
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If no one's doing the creative work that you want to do, do it yourself.
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We have fought for social justice. We have fought for economic justice. We have fought for environmental justice. We have fought for criminal justice. Now we must add a new fight - the fight for electoral justice.
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I feel very comfortable shooting music, and I think you can see that.
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I'm comfortable in the locker room situation, so whatever.
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When I was in the hospital, I was very suicidal in a kind of blind way, I was starving to death and just 'cause I didn't want to turn out like my family showed me, you know, that's all I ever saw of people, was my own family. I wasn't allowed to associate with anyone. Oh, God. So I didn't want to live.
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When you constantly hear people talking about going the distance, going the distance, you can't help but wonder about it. I learned a lesson: next time I will fight my fight without that doubt.
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Few things are more shocking to those who practice the arts of success than the frank description of those arts.
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I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.
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We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.
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I myself am a great James Dean fan. He had this aura and enigma about him.
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Make a decision that from now on, your thoughts do not run you, you run your thoughts. From now on, your mind is not the captain of your ship, you are the captain of the ship, and your mind works for you.
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I think cultural appropriation has been an issue since the beginning of time and I think it's so important for us to tell our own stories and tell them the way we know how they're supposed to be told but also giving each other the exposure and access in order to do that.
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I think having children is the most amazing thing.
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I have need of Rigaud. He is violent. I want him for carrying on war; and that war is necessary to me.
