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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The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world.
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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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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'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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If you cut down the forest, you know what happens: The whole of Asia turns into a desert. Without water, you're talking civil unrest, war, mud slides - the whole bloody lot.
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In comics, there are depths that don't reveal themselves immediately, and the stuff that you might consider anal about 'Watching the Watchmen' - like the notes where I plot the rotation of a perfume bottle through the air - might not be particularly obvious to anyone who reads it.
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The key word about The West Wing is show. It is not a reality show. It has nothing to do with reality.
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Essentially, it's not that technology or cyberspace is some parallel universe that operates tangentially from the world we know; it is simply a new front in the international system.
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I think nowadays people are so used taking the camera to the family picnic - so people are less surprised by films made of them, like home movies.
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I think the media has become incredibly corrupt. We used to have a profound tradition of investigative journalism in the United States. Some journalists were real heroes, such as Bob Woodward who helped uncover the Watergate scandal. But today he is leading the opposite charge, trying to bring down the careers of people and score easy victories. In other words, those who used to bust the status quo have now become the status quo.
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While complex acting roles are lacking for actresses, what's even more rare are female directors.
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Hey man, I gotta straighten my face. This mellow thighed chick just put my spine out of place.
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The real servant of the people must live among them, think with them, feel for them, and die for them.
