Carter G. Woodson (Carter Godwin Woodson) Quotes
If the white man wants to hold on to it, let him do so; but the Negro, so far as he is able, should develop and carry out a program of his own.
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'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
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I play on the left hand side, and I try to do the best I can.
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The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
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Maybe I'm just a slow learner or something, but I like to have things laid out as plainly and simply as possible.
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Bikes and planes aren't about going fast or having fun; they're toys, but serious ones.
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The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance for our description of the physical universe.
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I look up to Andrea Boccelli and Sarah Brightman. The best part about 'America's Got Talent' was performing with her!
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I took an improv class in 2005 in Chicago at ComedySportz, which was short-form, more of a games-based improv. I remember it being real fun and helping with my stand-up. If I did an improv class, and then I did stand-up later, I felt looser on stage and more comfortable.
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I've been touring through Texas since I was 15, on my first tour ever.
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There does seem to be a kind of split. There are those people who are more entrenched in the early electronic years, and new people who have come to it because of people like Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson.
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I normally wear Stuart Weitzman or Kors Michael Kors.
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One day of practice is like one day of clean living. It doesn't do you any good.
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In a world with many blockchains and hundreds of tradable tokens built on top of them, entire industries are automated through software, venture capital and stock markets are circumvented, entrepreneurship is streamlined, and networks gain sovereignty through their own digital currency. This is the next phase of the Internet.
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My ability to not be afraid to ask tough questions or to confront, that matters.
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All people need to know how AIDS is transmitted, and every country has an obligation to educate its citizens. This is why every country must also improve literacy, especially for women and girls, so that they can make wise choices that will keep them healthy and safe.
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If you say to a group of women professors, 'Close your eyes and think of a professor,' what they will see is a guy. I will. And I'll stop myself and think, 'Hey, hang on, what am I doing here?'
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I'm choosing not to accept the Trumpification of the GOP as an irreversible fact.
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I go broke a lot... I go broke a lot because I have this understanding that whatever I put out there, if I really am doing what's right, it's going to be rewarding, you know?
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The Galapagos Islands are probably the most famous wildlife-watching destination in the world. And no wonder - it's almost impossible to exaggerate the sheer spectacle of the place that provided inspiration for Charles Darwin's ground-breaking theory of natural selection.
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My favorite thing about decorating is mixing different periods and styles. If you have something that's old, and you really do want to mix those styles, then you have to add something that's obviously modern with it. You can't put a kind of a mediocre thing in the middle.
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The trouble with women is, that when they grow up, they turn into their mothers. The trouble with men is, that they don't.
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Bowie has an unusual face. He's neither a man nor a woman. There's this aura of fantasy that surrounds him. He has flair.
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Most men admire Virtue who follow not her lore.
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If the white man wants to hold on to it, let him do so; but the Negro, so far as he is able, should develop and carry out a program of his own.
