Langston Hughes Quotes
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Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.
Adam Pascal -
The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
Hanna Rosin -
Porridge and the urban lifestyle don't mix well.
Fergus Henderson -
I don't take fancy vacations. I buy all my jewelry at Claire's. I can't remember the last time I went out to a fancy dinner. My family lives in a modest two-bedroom apartment, and my kids share a bedroom. But I do have one extravagant vice: shoes.
Nancy Lublin -
I don't allow meat in my house or in my oven. My whole family is vegetarian - and although I've given my kids the choice to order meat at a restaurant when they reach five, they're not interested.
Sadie Frost -
I like school very much, and I'll go to college if my career slows down. But kids go to college to be where I am today. Not to put college down, but for me, it would be digressing.
Dana Hill
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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
Beatrix Potter -
I know what falling off the cliff means. I know from being considered a very bright kid to being considered like a moron and dropping out of school.
Walter Dean Myers -
If I am who I am, I'm provocative, candid, and androgynous; there's nothing I can do that will make any fan think, 'I didn't expect that from her.'
Halsey -
In this part of the world, Jews and Arabs will live together forever.
Yitzhak Shamir -
I took the longest showers of my life after every time I visited Gramacho. It affects the personality of the catadores. They always dress really well, they're very sharp, and when they go out they always wear a lot of perfume because they're very conscious of the possibility of having the smell.
Vik Muniz -
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
Carl Jung
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There is something so fun about scaring yourself.
Maika Monroe -
From last century's 'The Birth of a Nation' to this century's 'Gods and Generals,' Hollywood has likely done more than any other American institution to obstruct a truthful apprehension of the Civil War and, thus, modern America's very origins.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
I went on iTunes and looked at versions of Christmas songs. Everyone has done them!
Vince Clarke Erasure -
When people get taken over by the ego to such an extent, there is nothing else in their mind except the ego. They can no longer feel or sense their humanity - what they share with other human beings, or even with other life forms on the planet. They are so identified with concepts in their minds that other human beings become concepts as well.
Eckhart Tolle -
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
Umberto Eco -
Every man is his own hell.
H. L. Mencken
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The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
Oscar Wilde -
You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
Anais Nin -
That kind of skeptical, questioning, 'don't accept what authority tells you' attitude of science - is also nearly identical to the attitude of mind necessary for a functioning democracy. Science and democracy have very consonant values and approaches, and I don't think you can have one without the other.
Carl Sagan -
The right to free speech is critical to our democracy.
Amy Klobuchar -
'Democracy'
Langston Hughes