Harriet Tubman Quotes
I've heard 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' read, and I tell you Mrs. Stowe's pen hasn't begun to paint what slavery is as I have seen it at the far South. I've seen de real thing, and I don't want to see it on no stage or in no theater.
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Coaching is the great passion of my life, and the job to me has always been an opportunity to work with our student athletes and help them discover what they want.
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I've known Bezos for decades, since the very early days of Amazon, so it's no surprise to me that he's smart or willing to make big bets.
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Nothing is certain in life but death and taxes. And in Donald Trump's case, lies.
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There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
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If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.
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Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
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If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.
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We've got a yawl named the Phebe, which is named for a boat in a whaling journal my father and I edited. We keep a copy of the journal on board.
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I never come away from a film thinking I nailed it.
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When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence.
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If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.
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I've been able to make some wonderful films, but sometimes you make films with great passion - great belief - and these films slightly don't work at the box office, and they become your favorite films.
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When you do a film, you get picked up in a car, lunch is free. Theatre is really hard, and you get absolutely no money.
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Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.
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I am slightly fascinated by the question of whether humanity is capable of change. I may have come to the conclusion that we're not, but we keep trying.
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I'm not a good guitar player.
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Andy Andrews is the best speaker I have ever seen.
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I've pretty much behaved like a knucklehead my entire life.
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No life is well-rounded without the subtle inspiration of beauty.
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Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics - one people, one land, one truth, the end of difference. Since genocide is a form of political utopia, it remains an enduring temptation in any multiethnic and multicultural society in crisis.
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Novelists tend to go off at 70, and I'm in a funk about it, I've got myself into a real paranoid funk about it, how the talent dies before the body.
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The whole purpose of those attacks was to drive those contractors out. Lots of them had to leave. They were terrified.
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If we can't begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of child labor, then we really are not ready to march forward into the future.
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I've heard 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' read, and I tell you Mrs. Stowe's pen hasn't begun to paint what slavery is as I have seen it at the far South. I've seen de real thing, and I don't want to see it on no stage or in no theater.
