Carter G. Woodson (Carter Godwin Woodson) Quotes
If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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Being on the road with rock, it's pretty much 90 percent guys.
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I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I'll get to pursue them.
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I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.
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You're playing or you're not playing. If you're playing, so just shut up and play.
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I don't mind a bikini bottom.
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Cute girls and burgers. What more can you ask for? That's why we live in America.
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I just developed my act way back in the late '80s. I went to college in Georgia, so I picked up the Southern accent. I talked like that with my friends all the time, because it was fun. It was funny... All my friends were real Southern. We're buddies, so I'd say stuff to make them laugh. So that was pretty much it.
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Boxing is one of the few sports that is one on one.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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I feel I'm a strange mixture of insecurity and strength. Most of us, probably most people. I'm transferring that same concept to the people I photograph.
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I don't go on lunch dates with friends. I hear about people having dinner parties, but I never do that. I'm not really human.
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Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.
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No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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When I was living in New York, I had this slightly wannabe bohemian existence and took up painting, at which I'm appalling. I also bought several guitars.
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I don't do comedy so much although I would like to do a comedy.
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I am one who believes that the market, properly incentivized, can consistently outperform government regulation on achieving objectives.
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Everything depends therefore on encountering thought at its source. Such thought is the reality of man's being, which achieved consciousness and understanding of itself through it.
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We have a system which, though far from perfect, is strong with idealism. It gives elbow room for men of all races and all beliefs. It is vital and dynamic. And it works. We have the means of shaping the world in our pattern. If we do, freedom will be assured for all men. The decision is in the hands of this generation. It is a challenge to our political competence. For Western civilization it is the greatest challenge of all time.
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It hasn't been easy to find American citizens who are willing to pick fruit in 110 degree weather.
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When I started out as a model, I took things for granted. Because I bagged work thanks to my looks, I didn't give my body any importance. I was a couch potato who'd eat anything. Then, in 2005, a tabloid ran a story calling me fat. I thought, 'I'm famous. How can I be fat?' It was a slap. I decided to get fit.
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Orders and decorations are necessary in order to dazzle the people.
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I'm not studying everything that can go wrong. What I'm studying is how much love there can be, even when everything appears to be going wrong.
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If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.
