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.
Toussaint Louverture
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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.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
W. Clement Stone
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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.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
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If no one's doing the creative work that you want to do, do it yourself.
Kate Baldwin
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I feel very comfortable shooting music, and I think you can see that.
Taylor Hackford
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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.
Edie Sedgwick
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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.
Larry Holmes
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Few things are more shocking to those who practice the arts of success than the frank description of those arts.
Logan Pearsall Smith
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I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.
Arthur C. Clarke
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We need not only open trading systems, but systems that work for people around the world - taking into account not only the bottom line, but the well-being of working men and women, the protection of children against sweatshop labor, and the protection of the environment.
Al Gore
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I feel, like all modern Americans, no consciousness of sin and simply do not believe in it. All I know is that if God loves me only half as much as my mother does, he will not send me to Hell. That is a final fact of my inner consciousness, and for no religion could I deny its truth.
Lin Yutang
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Reproductive health decisions should be made by a woman and her doctor. Any efforts to undermine women's reproductive rights must stop.
Jan Schakowsky
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I think the most insulting thing you can do to a director is to challenge when he or she is satisfied with your interpretation.
Dustin Hoffman
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My other brother, the Lord Lucas, who was heir to my father's estate, and as it were the father to take care of us all, is not less valiant than they were, although his skill in the discipline of war was not so much, not being bred therein.
Margaret Cavendish
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It has been claimed that the aim of the present war is to end war. But war cannot end war, neither can militarism destroy militarism.
Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Baroness Pethick-Lawrence
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The relationship between violence and nonviolence in this country is interesting. The fact of the matter is, you know, people do respond to riots. The 1968 Housing Act was in large response to riots that broke out after Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. They cited these as an actual inspiration.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
Andre Maurois
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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.
Toussaint Louverture