Carter G. Woodson (Carter Godwin Woodson) Quotes
The real servant of the people must live among them, think with them, feel for them, and die for them.
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Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
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The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world.
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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I try to get away and take my motorcycle on a ride whenever I can. I'll take my bike out before the show and just cruise.
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There is always a multitude of reasons both in favor of doing a thing and against doing it. The art of debate lies in presenting them; the art of life lies in neglecting ninety-nine hundredths of them.
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I am followed in department stores. I have walked in dressed professionally or dressed in jeans, and I have walked into stores, and instantly, security is on my back.
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When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost interest. Eventually, I regained it and started writing songs.
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Many people are insecure of many people.
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Only a dynamic and strategically-minded America, together with a unifying Europe, can jointly promote a larger and more vital West, one capable of acting as a responsible partner to the rising and increasingly assertive East.
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If you write memoir, it can't be about blame or hurt; it has to be creative.
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It's not just a revue where one song is done, then another. There are concepts and ideas at work.
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Be content - Expansions, diffusions - content to be The unspotted imbecile revery, The heraldic center of the world Of blue, blue sleek with a hundred chins, The amorist Adjective aflame...
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You learn history in school, and you have a reverential feeling toward it. But by being irreverent, it feels current.
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I was writing my first book when I was in college. I was a teenager.
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My parents did not pay a cent for my education; they didn't give me a car or furniture - I did that 100% on my own. I had to pay back a lot.
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I developed 'Power: From the Mouths of the Occupied' while I was an Artist in Residence at Kalamazoo College.
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I'm recognizable in certain circles, like girls know me, couples know me. But not all straight men know me.
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How many times can you play an action character, or a quirky romantic? Every actor has to find his own way to make each character unique.
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In avant garde drama ... primitivism goes hand in hand with aesthetic experimentation designed to advance the technical progress of the art itself by exploring fundamental questions: What is a theatre? What is a play? What is an actor? What is a spectator? What is the relation between them all? What conditions serve this best?
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That still feels like the most accurate description - I felt homesick, but I was home.
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There is no doubt that I was blessed with a considerable amount of luck.
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The real servant of the people must live among them, think with them, feel for them, and die for them.
