Carter G. Woodson (Carter Godwin Woodson) Quotes
The oppressor has always indoctrinated the weak with his interpretation of the crimes of the strong.
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I rarely stay at home when I'm in New York. I'm always doing things. It brings you so much energy.
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I think when you're a director, it's hard to do something unless you're absolutely over-the-moon in love with it. The audience, they spend 90 minutes with it, but for you, it's anywhere between a year and a half to three years of your life, every day, working on it.
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Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.
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There are some things that money can't buy: peace of mind, for starters, and lean muscle mass. Neither the Queen of England nor the founder of Microsoft can put in an order for either one.
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We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
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I used to trip over my legs and get detention for my too-short shorts because none fit. I still trip, but now I like to show them off.
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If America don't come around, we're gonna' burn it down.
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I can't understand why someone wouldn't have a degree of sympathy for people that had to flee their country, travel to try and find their home somewhere, and nobody wants them. How could you not be a little bit sympathetic?
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I'm not the girl next door.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.
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I think we have to secure our borders and make sure that people coming in are coming here not to do us harm.
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I left my mark on 'Dark Shadows.' One day I was doing my lines perfectly from Act 3. Everyone else was doing Act 2.
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Half of my life, I've had people staring at me because they think I'm funny-looking and ugly. The other half of my life, I've had people staring at me because they think I'm fascinating. Everything neutralises. It's more of a statement on society and how weird it is.
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We can't just pay attention to women who look fantastic in a photograph, because there are a lot of people that have fantastic things to say that don't look like 25-year-old white models.
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I believe that a different therapy must be constructed for each patient because each has a unique story.
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I'm taking a vow not to advise.
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I just take it as it comes, and if I'm not offered something, there's always a reason, and usually it's a pretty good one. I'm not worried about it. You know, I've had an incredible career, and I'm blessed.
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For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death.
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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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A man has only a limited number of ways in which he can express strong emotions or violent passions. He uses the same gestures as when what he feels is only petty and unimportant. He utters the same ordinary words.
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The most consistently successful commanders, when faced by an enemy in a position that was strong naturally or materially, have hardly ever tackled it in a direct way. And when, under pressure of circumstances, they have risked a direct attack, the result has commonly been to blot their record with a failure.
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The oppressor has always indoctrinated the weak with his interpretation of the crimes of the strong.
