Langston Hughes Quotes
The stars went out and so did the moon. The singer stopped playing and went to bed While the Weary Blues echoed through his head. He slept like a rock or a man that's dead.
Quotes to Explore
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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I'm always surprised when an actor goes so deeply into the truth that they shake you to your core.
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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Being a pop star is something I don't think I'm very good at. I'm worried it's making me too paranoid, because all of a sudden, life has become this constant assessment. When you put something out there and people get to hear it, then those people react to it, socially, culturally.
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I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?
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There is not a job I've held in my career that was held by a woman before me.
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The U.S. government engages with many countries around the world in official dialogues on human rights.
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No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
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I am so excited to extend myself behind the scenes as a designer and to - as my father puts it - finally have a real job.
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I remember that, although I was full of fervour, I didn't have the slightest inkling, even at forty, of the deeper side to the movement we were pursuing by instinct. It was in the air!
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As a brother and sister, our tastes were pretty different growing up. He liked a lot of early hip hop. My dad didn't understand it and would try to talk him out of it.
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I got a divorce, and I felt like I finally started my career. I started making movies and projects that I just really believed in.
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My father always told me, 'Before you become a queen, you have to learn how to take care of your own things.' So I knew how to do all of it, but I had never really done it on a daily basis. So I was cleaning houses, and I started working restaurants.
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We have to honor our commitments to today's beneficiaries, but we can't solve the growing deficit and debt problems unless we are smart, courageous, and sensible in planning for future.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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God's blessing has been on America from the very beginning of this nation, and I believe God isn't done with America yet.
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As writers, we can't predict who might come along who might find our offerings valuable.
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Naps are the key to relieving stress. When you are working on two hours of sleep, the fact that cheese comes on something when you ordered it with no cheese is enough to send you crying under the covers for an hour.
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I don't sit in the corner waiting for death: death has to pursue me. I'm going strong. I hope to reach 100 and ask for an extension, just like my grandmother did.
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Today we are at a crossroads. The technology is available for two great options: The massive surveillance state, or the renewed freedom of a deeply-involved citizenry thinking independently and holding the government to the highest standards.
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When I was growing up, rock & roll helped give me my sense of identity, but I had to search for it.
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The stars went out and so did the moon. The singer stopped playing and went to bed While the Weary Blues echoed through his head. He slept like a rock or a man that's dead.
