W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes
All womanhood is hampered today because the world on which it is emerging is a world that tries to worship both virgins and mothers and in the end despises motherhood and despoils virgins.
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.
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All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.
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I knew that for this movie to work it had to be very hot and very real, and it wasn't going to be a case of doing it Hollywood all covered with a nice little sheet.
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In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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The Democratic Party went far to the left, I think, and left some of us stranded on the beach, so we went to the Republican Party.
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If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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One should live between extravagance and meanness. Don't save money by starving your mind. It is false economy never to take a holiday, or never to spend money for an evening's amusement or for a useful book.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
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I am enormously honored to be one of the spokesmen of the New Age Womens Health Campaign, so you'll be seeing me in public service announcements and public appearances supporting the campaign.
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Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.
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It's superficial that people think I'm cool because I wear certain clothes and I have tattoos. The funniest part is, when they get to know me, they're always surprised by how nerdy I am.
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
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It's joyful to give. But for people who want to take advantage of you, you're kind of an easy mark.
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You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours.
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The only thing that we have earned at the hands of perfect justice is perfect punishment.
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The world is a dangerous place to live.
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Duets are not about individual skill but about the relationship between the two players.
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If values matter in an organisation, you have to be prepared to act consistently.
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All womanhood is hampered today because the world on which it is emerging is a world that tries to worship both virgins and mothers and in the end despises motherhood and despoils virgins.
