Charles Lenox Remond Quotes

Color is made to obscure the brightest endowments, to degrade the fairest character, and to check the highest and most praiseworthy aspirations.

Charles Lenox Remond

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• I think whatever you have in your life, my opinion is that if you know that there's something wrong, you try to fix it.

  

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• Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.

  

  Yuri Milner
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• I'm a warrior for the middle class.

  

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• A well begun is half ended.

  

  A. C. Benson
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• I like the sudden shock of non-sequitur color. Color, in fact, is my weakness.

  

  Babe Paley
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• The amygdala plays a crucial role in processing fear, and minus her two amygdalae, S.M. became unflappable. Studies of her are actually a hoot to read, since they basically consist of scientists concocting ever-more-elaborate ways of trying to scare her.

  

  Sam Kean
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• If you have a major disaster involving hundreds of thousands, or in this case millions of people, whether it be a natural disaster or an act of terrorism, the first 72 hours are going to be totally chaotic no matter what you plan to do.

  

  Warren Rudman
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• There are some times when I think acting can be a noble profession. And when those rare roles come along, like 'Down to the Bone,' you have the opportunity to be of service.

  

  Vera Farmiga
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• If you are going to call a film a 'black film' then you have to make a film that represents everyone that's black, which is almost impossible. That is why white films are not called white films, they are just called 'films.'

  

  Idris Elba
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• This devil loves mankind because men are going to always make the choice that will send him into ascendancy. He's been winning the game for a long time.

  

  Taylor Hackford
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• When I planned to ski Everest, the first thing I faced was, 'How can I return alive?' All the preparation and training was based on this question. But the more I prepared, I knew the chance of survival was very slim. Nobody in the world had done this before, so I told myself that I must face death. Otherwise, I am not eligible.

  

  Yuichiro Miura
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• It's true that I'm even better than I could have imagined, both in football and in my private life!

  

  Eden Hazard
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• The history of African-American repression in this country rose from government-sanctioned racism. Jim Crow laws were a product of bigoted state and local governments.

  

  Rand Paul
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• Not to want to say, not to know what you want to say, not to be able to say what you think you want to say, and never to stop saying, or hardly ever, that is the thing to keep in mind, even in the heat of composition.

  

  Samuel Beckett
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• Not a lot of conservatives on this list. Are more liberals than conservatives screwing up America?

  

  Matt Lauer
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• Prince was unapologetically different, and he made it okay for his fans to be different and to celebrate their individuality. His social conscience challenged us to look deeper than the skin color of our neighbors.

  

  Betsy Hodges
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• Social entrepreneurs are people who have amazing passion to do good.

  

  Jean-Philippe Courtois
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• The devadasis have a multilayered story, a story in which poverty, deprivation and injustice against women is central - but what has happened to them is absolutely an outcome of imperialism and the impact of British rule in India.

  

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• I had so many agents tell me that at size 18, I would never work or work again. I heard, 'Go home and lose some weight.'

  

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• Tip-of-the-tongue syndrome is when people almost remember something but need a computer, or someone else, to help them find it. The problem is, our brains have always been terrible at remembering details. They were like that way before the Internet came along.

  

  Clive Thompson
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• Fritz Mondale is not some synthetic Masked Marvel or Mystery Man. He is not made of silicon and micro-chip flakes. He is made of flesh and blood and brains.

  

  Lane Kirkland
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• I left 'Dr Who' after 18 months, as my character was going nowhere. In truth, I wished I had never gone into it. Afterwards, all the scripts that came my way were for 15-year olds.

  

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• All that we don't know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing.

  

  Philip Roth

• Color is made to obscure the brightest endowments, to degrade the fairest character, and to check the highest and most praiseworthy aspirations.

  

  Charles Lenox Remond
  • Character
  • Aspiration
  • Obscure