Carter G. Woodson (Carter Godwin Woodson) Quotes
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I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
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Let us have peace.
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When I realised that I had feelings for men as well as women, at first I was worried and frightened, and there was a certain amount of 'Who am I? Am I a criminal?' and so on. It took me a long time to come to terms with myself. Those were painful years - painful then and painful to look back on.
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I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.
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My parents met because my father was an actor friend of one of my mom's brothers, but my mother has never set foot on the stage - she's quite shy. So it's a strange thing because people say, 'Oh, coming from acting parents,' when the idea of acting would literally make my mother just want to throw up.
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People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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'American Music' is an inventive, passionate, pithy novel whose major theme is love itself and whose minor theme, music, is an emotional, meaningful counterpoint. Like Count Basie and His Orchestra, this book swings.
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The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.
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I always looked up there, because I remember a time when the only things on the walls in Fenway were the Jimmy Fund sign and the retired numbers. Never in a million years did you think you'd ever be up there with those guys.
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Don't even try to talk to me when I'm watching the moon. That's my moon, baby.
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In the case of my husband, we found that facing a life-threatening illness prodded us to make a dramatic change in our lives.
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The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the form of books still remains one of humanity's most enduring legacies.
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If vampires were a separate species, and they were into genetic engineering, what would they engineer for?
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But I've been there and done that. I'm not trying to prove anything to anybody, and if somebody wants me to come, if they can afford what I ask, it's not as much as Madonna makes; not that I want what Madonna makes, but I was saying.
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My private life is quiet.
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I know I'm good enough to contend in each and every major I play.
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Life isn't about algebra and geometry. Learning by making mistakes and not duplicating them is what life is about.
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One of the astronauts I came to admire the most is John Young.
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Once they're on paper, they're gone. I like to do as much with the words, as far as image goes.
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Sometimes people go to a yoga class and think it's not for them, but it might just not be the right studio or teacher - try a new one!
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What man could afford to pay for all the things a wife does, when she's a cook, a mistress, a chauffeur, a nurse, a baby-sitter? But because of this, I feel women ought to have equal rights, equal Social Security, equal opportunities for education, an equal chance to establish credit.
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The mere imparting of information is not education.
