W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes
It is the growing custom to narrow control, concentrate power, disregard and disenfranchise the public; and assuming that certain powers by divine right of money-raising or by sheer assumption, have the power to do as they think best without consulting the wisdom of mankind.
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I love watching the old movies. I love Katharine Hepburn. I just adore her and everything that she stood for. I find it interesting watching the likes of Gene Tierney and those classic movies of the '40s.
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My dad and I would watch Ray Lewis a lot. His tenacity, and he was everywhere. I wanted that mindset, too.
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I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That's what's fun about recording with an orchestra.
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The Epistle to the Romans is an extremely important synthesis of the whole theology of St. Paul.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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I was a little too young to be a hippie.
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CGI has fully ruined car crashes. Because how can you be impressed with them now? When you watch them in the '70s, it was real cars, real metal, real blasts. They're really doing it and risking their lives. But I knew CGI was gonna start taking over.
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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
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Fortunately, I grew up in a family that was grounded. My mother and father knew how to guide my career and look out for my best interests.
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Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.
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Live shows are pretty much like the center of the storm... where the power comes from, the most raw experience. That's the juice. That's where we hit the hardest.
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Everything that I design I would wear myself.
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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
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The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from being perfect.
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It is hard to think of practical applications of the black hole. Because practical applications are so remote, many people assume we should not be interested. But this quest to understand the world is what defines us as human beings.
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Presumably all obsessions are extreme metaphors waiting to be born. That whole private mythology, in which I believe totally, is a collaboration between one's conscious mind and those obsessions that, one by one, present themselves as stepping-stones.
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The British tend to shy away from the spotlight. We don't like being singled out in any way, and I think that is something which is important for me to learn to do.
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I do my work and do the best I can. I'm quite happy with my anonymity. All I can ever hope for is that I continue to do great work that will be remembered, and I leave my imprint so that my son can say proudly, 'That's my dad!'
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Men do communicate, often very directly, but women sometimes cannot accept how simple what we have to say is.
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When I was growing up, I went to an Irish-Christian missionary school.
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I watched a ton of films growing up, but in a haphazard way. There was nothing scholarly or focused about it.
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For the first time I'm free to be myself.
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It is the growing custom to narrow control, concentrate power, disregard and disenfranchise the public; and assuming that certain powers by divine right of money-raising or by sheer assumption, have the power to do as they think best without consulting the wisdom of mankind.
