Carter G. Woodson (Carter Godwin Woodson) Quotes
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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
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Ninety percent of the comic books I've written in the past had little or nothing to do with Islam.
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I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.
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I personally don't think you should ever date someone you work with, will work with, etc. I won't ever date an actor.
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I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.
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Our critics would love nothing more for us to go away and just be quiet. And we won't give them that satisfaction. We have young children that, one day, when they understand more of what's happened and what's transpired, we wanna be able to say to them, you know, we did our best. And we told the truth.
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You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?
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Galley Molina's a great inspiration and role model for a lot of young kids out there.
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I have consistently supported laws ensuring women are able to make their own health care decisions, and I will continue to protect women's access to contraceptives and reproductive health care.
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If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job.
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Whoever has lost a fight in the UFC and hasn't wanted to fight that guy the next day shouldn't be in the sport.
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The past two decades revolutionized the way we access information. You and I can have our questions answered with the click of a mouse at any time of day. If America, both corporation and citizen alike, can use these services to solve problems, why can't Washington?
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Governors normally have jurisdiction over public health emergencies, but a widespread biological attack would cross state boundaries.
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I never had those dreams of making the Olympics. Never.
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My mother never really thought I could become anything.
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I remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as being like a cross between an oboe and a viola, but louder.
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I understand that the end does not justify the means. And this should be a lasting value for democracy.
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I've never had a supernatural experience. I've been tempted to maybe have a tarot-card reading, but I don't know if I'd necessarily want to know.
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I was always the guy getting kicked out of my classes at school for having an attitude problem.
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As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy or justice, are folly when we are dealing with human crocodiles and boa-constrictors.
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I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful.
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A purpose gives meaning to life. It is like the hub in a wheel -- with every spoke fitted into it to make a strong and perfect circle. Without such a hub, spokes will not radiate evenly and your wheel will lack strength, will tend to break apart on the first good bump it hits. Given a strong hub, a strong purpose, a person can take a surprising number of shocks and bumps on the outside rim without sustaining permanent damage.
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I'm an old dog; I don't get too excited. I don't get caught up in all the mass hysteria.
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No man knows what he can do until he tries.
