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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You learn from things that you experience in life. I'd never want to say that I regret anything or that anything was a mistake. Honestly, that isn't how I have chosen to live my life.
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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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I want to go out and chase greatness. That's all I want to do.
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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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I get all these loser preps coming up to me asking for autographs and all this crap, and I really want to tell them, 'My music is not for people like you!
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Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.
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In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
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I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics.
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the idea of movement.. ..just transferred from the Nude Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 - Duchamp painted this in 1912 into a bicycle wheel Bicycle wheel, his early ready-made from 1916-17.
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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.
