Carter G. Woodson (Carter Godwin Woodson) Quotes
If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.
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I've always performed. I've done plays at home.
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Everyone who likes my books is like me in some way.
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Had I been injured on the freeway and not in combat, it is likely that I would be bankrupt even though I had medical insurance through my civilian employer.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.
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It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.
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No matter what you do, if there's something you're afraid of, you need to break through it.
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It's a very hard industry, and it's very cold. It's loving for when you have a hit record, but when you don't have anything going on, there's really not much support.
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As a state senator and then a congressman, I've had the privilege of trying to do good things for people to whom I owe so much and can never fully repay.
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I want people to tell me the truth.
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In human life, economics precedes politics or culture.
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The real reason why people are going with digital is that it's extraordinarily mobile, and it's cheaper, and it has a great image, and you just can't beat it at night. It's pulling in variations of colors; it's pulling in lights from 40 miles away - a candle would be seen.
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America is an archipelago of tribes, a land where people form national families of kindred spirits.
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It is past time that consumers recognize the emerging power of 'Made In America' products and services. The nation's shopping list needs this header: Check out what is made here before you 'go' overseas.
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Terrorism is a horrible thing that is the great threat to civilization on our planet.
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'Don't Look Now' is a masterpiece. I think it's the best-edited movie of all time. I adore it.
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It's a very confusing experience living as a woman in Japan. If your husband is white-collar, the wife is blue. Even if you marry a person of status, the wife inevitably remains a rung below.
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It's almost like he's started to sound even more exotic the more people started doing him. I don't know why, but there's just something about Al Gore that makes me laugh.
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I rendezvous with the long wire and perform the 'torero walk', gliding my feet, holding the pole away from my body, head high.
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I am honored to have been chosen by Gov. Scott to serve Floridians as their lieutenant governor.
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We discovered, like infants opening their eyes for the first time, that God's coming upon earth out of love for us had radically changed the world, because he had remained with us. As we walked about the city, or traveled to different cities and countries, it was not the beautiful and interesting things around us that attracted us. Not even Rome's wonderful monuments and precious relics seemed so important. Rather, what gave a sense of continuity to our journeying through the world for Jesus, was His Eucharistic presence in the tabernacles we found wherever we went.
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If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.
