Candace Wheeler Quotes
Brown people and black people and red people swarmed through our great halls, until those who were white looked simply faded-out human beings beside them. Indeed, I came to see that white is not a color in skin any more than in textiles, and if it had not quality, it had no value even for humanity. I saw that color in skin had a certain advantage in strength and warmth as a means of beauty.
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As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.
Dan Rather
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
Igor Stravinsky
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I can't watch a Mayweather fight. I don't find it exciting.
Usain Bolt
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There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.
Eddie Bernice Johnson
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
Uwe Boll
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Marvel has such a huge slice of the pie.
Mahershala Ali
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It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.
Camilla Luddington
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When I finished touring 'Fur and Gold,' I was just like, 'What am I doing? What do I have? Where is my home?' I didn't really know where it was, so I went to New York to try and make it there.
Bat for Lashes
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My motivation and aspiration is the same, being number one or being number five. So that's the truth. And my goal is the same - it's to always be happy playing, it's to enjoy the game and improve always.
Rafael Nadal
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The simple things in life make me very happy.
Samantha Fox
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Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.
Harlan Stone
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Having a son is not all pleasure.
Yoko Ono
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The airplane stays up because it doesn't have the time to fall.
Orville Wright
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The mainstream media has chosen their candidates and their issues, and they're not the same as the GOP's. They are going to be painted as the bad guys.
Barbara Olson
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Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make you regret your premature action.
Aaron Burr
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Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales.
R. A. Salvatore
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If you're skinny and you can't play hockey in Canada, you aren't left with a lot of options. I was left with running.
Malcolm Gladwell
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If you don't feel safe as a child, you can't learn.
Lady Gaga
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I don't mind telling you in confidence that I am keeping in fairly close touch with that admirable Italian gentleman.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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D.C.'s always had a great scene.
Bill Burr
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One feels 'the dearth of human words, the roughness of mortal speech' in trying to describe things intangible.
Ernest Shackleton
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Markets work when people can evaluate the prices and risks of different products, then pick the ones that work best for them. But when the terms of the deal are hidden, competition doesn't work. And customers aren't the only ones who are hurt.
Elizabeth Warren
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Brown people and black people and red people swarmed through our great halls, until those who were white looked simply faded-out human beings beside them. Indeed, I came to see that white is not a color in skin any more than in textiles, and if it had not quality, it had no value even for humanity. I saw that color in skin had a certain advantage in strength and warmth as a means of beauty.
Candace Wheeler