Carter G. Woodson (Carter Godwin Woodson) Quotes
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I am very much a girly girl as well as being this tough, athletic fighter. I grew up a tomboy. I got my first four wheeler when I was eight. I got my first dirt bike shortly after. So, I have a lot of these manly qualities, I guess you would say. But, I also like to go get dressed up every weekend.
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I think Don Cheadle has always done great work.
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If you want to have prosperity here, we really have to see our small businesses able to grow and compete around the world.
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Being the first woman speaker and breaking the marble ceiling is pretty important. Now it's time to move on.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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The Irish Government can no longer stand by and see innocent people injured and perhaps worse.
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I grew up in a home where reading was a big deal.
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Sugarcoating doesn't do anybody any good.
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Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous.
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I am very strong. When you have children, you have to be.
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The data says that with the poor, a little money can buy a lot of happiness. If you're rich, a lot of money can buy you a little more happiness. But in both cases, money does it.
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It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees.
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I think sometimes when you want attention, you can wear sunglasses, and people are like, 'Who is that?'
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We are opposed to all cruelty, so as advocates of non-violence, opponents of oppression, people who abhor the cruelty inherent in slaughtering we say the only ethical way to consume flesh is to pick up the carcass of an animal who has died naturally or been killed accidentally, say by being hit by a car, and eat that.
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Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to turn Desiring this man's gift and that man's scope I no longer strive to strive towards such things (Why should the agèd eagle stretch its wings?) Why should I mourn The vanished power of the usual reign?
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If police organizations and departments acknowledge that there's a problem and there's an issue, then that, too, is going to contribute to real solutions. And, as I said yesterday, that is what's going to ultimately help make the job of being a cop a lot safer.
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Voyaging into the night, one knows exactly where, on a known vessel, an absolute harmony with the elements of the unreal. 1959, reacting on a remark of Robert Motherwell
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What you are is a man who means to be good, and undo the bad he’s done, and that’s as good as any man ever gets.
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If God has called you, the more they block your way, the more that trouble and temptation, the more God's love is provoked. Each attempt to stop you asks for more evidence from God.
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There's very few people, who really thrive creatively under great stress and conflict.
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My friends I grew up with were so supportive to me. And I'm not the only one who's done well.
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There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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It all depended on the cut. Some of them were really on the ship. Some were really on the set. Like if they had the stars for a week, the stars coming off, that was usually on the set, except if we were on location for that particular show.
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Truth comes to us from the past, then, like gold washed down from the mountains.
