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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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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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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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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Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have. People want to know what happens next, people hate the villains and love the lovers. It's good, fun TV. But I wouldn't call 'Downton' a soap opera as such.
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In income tax, there is no case for amnesty.
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I'm not interested in going and doing a big, action-adventure romp with nothing to say about being a human being.
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The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?
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When I was a child, I'd see a movie, I took it for what it was, I enjoyed it. And if I believed it I would tend to be more interested in knowing more about it.
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I try to stay as naive as possible so I'm not as aware as much of the risks.
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Reason is the servant of instinct.
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It is wrong for a secular government to promote prayer. We think the National Day of Prayer is unconstitutional. What if the president declared a National Day of Cursing God because He failed us on September 11? Americans would say, "You've overstepped your authority." That's how we feel when he promotes prayer.
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We're not talking about insignificant amounts of code. It's substantial System V code showing up in Linux.
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You talk like they don’t kick dreams around downtown.
