Claude Brown Quotes
Despite everything that Harlem did to our generation, I think it gave something to a few. It gave them a strength that couldn't be obtained anywhere else.
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Our concerns sink into insignificance when compared with the eternal value of human personality - a potential child of God which is destined to triumph over lie, pain, and death. No one can take this sublime meaning of life away from us, and this is the one thing that matters.
Igor Sikorsky
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They thought that I did conceive there was a difference between them and Mr. Cotton... I might say they might preach a covenant of works as did the apostles, but to preach a covenant of works and to be under a covenant of works is another business.
Anna Hutchison
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It may well be that some composers do not believe in God. All of them, however, believe in Bach.
Bela Bartok
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Because I'm a woman, because I'm a character actress, because I'm over 40, I'll be very interested to see, not just for me but for other actresses, how Hollywood treats us in the next ten, fifteen years. I'm hoping that it's not going to be so easy to shove people under the rug, as they have in the past.
Kathy Bates
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Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious, the self-righteous, are in that danger.
C. S. Lewis
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My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter.
Abraham Lincoln
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Learning is the beginning of wealth. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins. The great breakthrough in your life comes when you realize it that you can learn anything you need to learn to accomplish any goal that you set for yourself. This means there are no limits on what you can be, have or do.
Alfred Einstein
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Perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book.
William Godwin
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Being a screenwriter is not enough for a full creative life.
William Goldman
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I am no coward; but I am so strong, so hard to die.
Meriwether Lewis
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Sophie was neither a virgin nor a prude, despite what people might otherwise assume about librarians. On the contrary, if people knew just how well-read she was on the subject of sex, they would likely be shocked. Especially Jake.
Bella Andre
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Welcome to my nightmare, I think your going to like it.
Alice Cooper
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Our natural and happiest life is when we lose ourselves in the exquisite absorption of home.
Nikki Gemmell
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Despite everything that Harlem did to our generation, I think it gave something to a few. It gave them a strength that couldn't be obtained anywhere else.
Claude Brown