W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes
If white people need colleges to furnish teachers, ministers, lawyers, and doctors, do black people need nothing of the sort?
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I think when I first started acting there were different people who I thought, 'I want that person's career or that person's career.' And as time has gone on, it's become really clear to me what is important to me; getting the best roles, the roles that I feel are challenging and scary and that I haven't done yet.
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When you're a producer and an artist you're very critical of yourself. I like to produce other people, but I'm not that good at producing myself.
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Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
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With 'Tron,' we had so many crew members around and a stage full of special effects people that know exactly what has to be done in the situations. You're on a stage in sets the whole time.
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I know someone from growing up who is in jail right now for the rest of his life, but he was one of the sweetest people I ever knew.
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When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.
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I love doing impressions of politicians because the task is always to imagine the private lives of these people whose job it is to project an image of staunch, unflinching leadership and grace, and that's just not how human beings, in their heart of hearts, work.
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My fear is that people associate Rand Paul's social conservatism with libertarianism, when it's not.
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Caring about policy is important - people in washington forget.
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In New York you can just walk out and be among people. You're on the subway among people, you go to cafes, you can talk to people.
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To be black in the Baltimore of my youth was to be naked before the elements of the world.
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The thing you notice here after America is how refreshingly ordinary people look because they haven't had their chin wrapped around the back of their ears.
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It was a lovely opportunity for the first time in my whole career to stand up and thank people who are really responsible for me getting to realize my dreams.
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Some musical directors have more chutzpah. They pick up the phone and talk people into giving. I prefer to call and say 'thank you' after the money has been contributed.
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I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.
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You need to talk about sex with a sense of humor, especially because sex is a sensitive area for a lot of people.
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I want to be remembered like Pete Rose. 'Charlie Hustle.' I want people to say, 'Wherever he was, he was always giving it his all.'
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The huge difference in my lifetime is that you can just go up to somebody and make a pass. You couldn't do that in the 1950s if you were gay. There were secret handshakes, a secret language. There was nowhere you could go to be romantic outside of people's houses.
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Sin is a dangerous toy in the hands of the virtuous. It should be left to the congenitally sinful, who know when to play with it and when to let it alone.
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My dad was a workaholic. I saw him work seven days a week.
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We ask our brave men and women in uniform to risk everything to protect us.
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I love horror movies because they're really fun. They tap into those wonderful primal emotions.
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Conversely, I came to realize that being good at something is hardly a reason to avoid doing it.
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If white people need colleges to furnish teachers, ministers, lawyers, and doctors, do black people need nothing of the sort?
