Langston Hughes Quotes
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This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.
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Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they're too short. That's because today's inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000.
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Mum and Dad were very much friends and up for life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was growing up; they just taught me to be me.
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I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.
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All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.
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There are over a million people running around the United States that were born to parents just on Match.com alone, to say nothing of the other properties we run, so that's a million lives that our company just had a little to do with in bringing their parents together.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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George Washington and Abraham Lincoln were gay, just for starters. They didn't have a name for it, but their primary affections and intellectual attractions were all for other men.
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I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I.
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More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
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I view my pitching on how confident I was out there, period. And if I lose that confidence, I can become a prisoner of my own mind.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.
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We know that Texas is more than a state. Texas has always been a promise. The promise that where you start has nothing to do with how far you can come.
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When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first.
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I love football so when I finish playing I would like to still be involved in it somehow and a manager would be my first choice.
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The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.
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Collective states are constitutionally incapable of reliably producing anything but corpses.
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I've been around a long time, and when I was at the top of the hill, I was very ahead of my time! Evidence of that is that my music is still current today - you know, rappers sample it all the time. So, rather than compromise my artistic integrity, I concentrated on movies.
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Playing live is very exhausting, which is partly why I feel so tired today. But I've always wanted to live like that. I'd rather feel the experience than to be sort of feeling something in between and dull and numb. I love feeling the highs and the lows, it makes life far more exciting.
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He had a bitter pain in his heart, for he knew that she was still a stranger to him and his hungry love was destined ever to remain unsatisfied.
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I believe that there will be a very substantial, perhaps even a two-thirds majority, for constitutional change and the modernization of our system of government in the next Parliament.
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Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear.
