Langston Hughes Quotes
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If Harvard is $60,000 and University of Toronto, where I went to school, is maybe six. So you're really telling me that education is 10 times better at Harvard than it is at University of Toronto? That seems ridiculous to me.
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President Bush has a track record of making the right decisions when it comes to national security.
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The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form.
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The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.
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When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.
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The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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When I read, I take notes and underline things. So reading is a vigorous process for me, but I read in bed. My poor husband is trying to go to sleep, and I'm reaching over him to get the Post-it notes.
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Pave your own path and be fearless.
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A lot of children remember seeing cartoons, 'Pinocchio' or 'Bambi' or something that breaks their heart. I remember seeing 'The Blue Angel' and it breaking my heart. It was the first time I realised there was an adult world - that adults could damage each other or destroy each other emotionally.
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Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.
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There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
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If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.
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My family runs a little art gallery back in Cornwall, so flashy cars and things like that have never really been particularly interesting to me.
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I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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I'm from Long Beach - not the best area in the world - and I had a lot of ghetto friends growing up.
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Weeks go by, and I don't talk to another living soul.
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It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of their savings.
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In my youth, it was my good luck to have a few good teachers, men and women, who came into my head and lit a match.
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If I keep God first in my life, if I keep my family and friends as second, and then I keep my occupation third, that's when I've found success.
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Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.
