Carter G. Woodson (Carter Godwin Woodson) Quotes
It may be well to repeat here the saying that old men talk of what they have done, young men of what they are doing, and fools of what they expect to do. The Negro race has a rather large share of the last mentioned class.
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I've learned in my life that it's important to be able to step outside your comfort zone and be challenged with something you're not familiar or accustomed to. That challenge will allow you to see what you can do.
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It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.
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I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
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The most annoying and full-of-crap thing a writer says is, 'I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it.' A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
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It hurts every day when you practice hard, but when this decathlon is over, I got the rest of my life to recuperate. Who cares how bad it hurts?
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The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.
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My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
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I'm a vulnerable, sensitive person. I overthink everything.
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I hate Valentine's day. It is a day for nothing but disappointment.
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I do read movie blogs. I think what's really interesting - Probably everyone says this, but what's interesting is it, it takes away the power, from the newspaper magnates, so be it Murdoch or whatever. I mean, it's like the people taking it back. Isn't it?
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Being a pop-leaning, female artist, you'd think that I'd have my record company breathing down my neck and trying to control everything I'm doing. Actually, they've just kind of let me take the wheel.
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I would hate to be on a plane every day.
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You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.
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If I could play any role in any musical, it would be Desiree in 'A Little Night Music' - Oh my, it is perfection. The character gets to be funny, beautiful, sexy and smart all at the same time and have two men fighting over her. The show is Stephen Sondheim at his absolute best... need I say more?
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And sure th' Eternal Master foundHis single talent well employ'd.
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Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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You still got that light in your eye,And our day is comin’ by and by.I’m travellin’ this long road here with you;We still gotta long way, we still gotta long way to go.
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Being unprepared heightens nerves.
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When we are powerless to do a thing, it is a great joy that we can come and step inside the ability of Jesus.
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As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.
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One of the ugly secrets of the renewable-energy industry is that its products make no economic sense unless they are highly subsidized.
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who should give a clear answer to the question of whether Iraq has weapons of mass destruction or not.
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It may be well to repeat here the saying that old men talk of what they have done, young men of what they are doing, and fools of what they expect to do. The Negro race has a rather large share of the last mentioned class.
