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.W. E. B. Du Bois
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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.
Natalie Dormer -
My dad and I would watch Ray Lewis a lot. His tenacity, and he was everywhere. I wanted that mindset, too.
Malik Jackson -
I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That's what's fun about recording with an orchestra.
Barbra Streisand -
The Epistle to the Romans is an extremely important synthesis of the whole theology of St. Paul.
Hans Kung -
Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
Umberto Eco -
People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
Barney Frank
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I was a little too young to be a hippie.
Gale Norton -
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.
Quentin Tarantino -
The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
C. S. Lewis -
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.
Larenz Tate -
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.
E. Joseph Cossman -
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.
Watkin Tudor Jones
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Everything that I design I would wear myself.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
Samuel Johnson -
The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from being perfect.
Adam Osborne -
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.
Yuri Milner -
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.
J. G. Ballard -
If you use tact you can say anything, then make it funny.
Dane Cook
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Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.
Queen Rania of Jordan -
The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?
James Hillman -
The first time I fought Mike Chandler, I was thinking about money way too much. I was thinking about the end of my contract. My focus was way off. I didn't believe in the people that were guiding me.
Eddie Alvarez -
I think the biggest challenge we faced in making 'The September Issue' was the fact that people in the fashion world are very suspicious of cameras. They're used to a camera being the enemy, something that is prying and looking to catch you in a compromising position, something that's judging you.
R. J. Cutler -
Everybody knows that, in general, a basketball player needs to be tall and a fashion model needs to be skinny, but how skinny is too skinny?
Coco Rocha -
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.
W. E. B. Du Bois