Langston Hughes Quotes
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The art of life is to show your hand.
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I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I'll get to pursue them.
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When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean.
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In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
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I had a lovely childhood. For family holidays, we went as far as the car could take us - we would drive to Florida, even though it would take three days. I didn't know we didn't have a lot of money because there was always food on the table. I didn't have a lot of stuff, but I did figure skating for a long time, and I always had my skates.
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Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.
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Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.
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I understand that the tendency of foreign countries in recent years has been to establish particularly close relations with one or two others among all the countries which have general relations. In time of peace, they make secret treaties in advance, and in wartime, they aid one another with military provisions and armaments.
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There's a group of people - maybe the secular Taliban is a good name for them - who have morphed this idea, that you have to accept my values being every bit as cherished as your values. That's not tolerance... There are too many things in this world which we sit back and tolerate.
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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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To someone who is not currently on anti-depressants, I would suggest trying other treatments first - for example, psychotherapy.
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Remember Tupperware? That was the toughest stuff ever. Why can't they make a phone out of Tupperware?
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I definitely enjoy working with people who can do their thing but also allow me to do my thing, you know? Who respect the process.
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It's important to have a big-enough house in order to have space.
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If I am not above the law, nobody in this country can then claim to be above the law.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
I didn't get a phone call from Bill Clinton before I jumped in the race ... maybe it's because I hadn't given money to the foundation or donated to his wife's senate race.
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The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'
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I want to move people the way Edith Piaf did.
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For as long as I can remember the slogan has been ... the federal government ought to behave more like families, because families balance their budgets. It turns out that families looked around and said, "You know what? Let's behave more like the government!"
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Love is the most durable power in the world. This creative force is the most potent instrument available in mankind's quest for peace and security.
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At the age of thirty-seven, I was fat, and since the age of thirty-eight, I have never been fat again. That's the whole idea of effective weight loss - it's permanent because it's part of your lifestyle and the way you think about yourself, with pride and a sense of accomplishment. The goal you achieve is your own - you own it.
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You can experience consciousness now by experiencing the fact that you exist.
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She was a woman who liked to be busy. If she needed something, she picked up the telephone and, link by link, put together the chain that led to her goal. She knew how to ask in such a way that saying no was impossible. And she crossed ideological borders confidently, she respected no hierarchies, she tracked down cleaning women, bureaucrats, industrialists, intellectuals, ministers, and she addressed all with cordial detachment, as if the favor she was about to ask she was in fact already doing for them.
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You talk like they don’t kick dreams around downtown.
