W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes
Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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My lesson from history is that if there is a strong moderate centrist party which can lead the country, there is no room for extremists from the right or left.
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You cannot exploit the advantages of getting above the atmosphere unless you are able to get up there reasonably large-sized telescopes and unless you are able to keep these telescopes pointing at one region of the sky for long periods of time to a high degree of accuracy.
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There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
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Feature filmmaking is a very powerful medium. It has a hold on me now.
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You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.
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The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.
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My stepfather gave me a Kodak camera when I was 17 years old. I started working at a local photo store in Le Havre, France, taking passport pictures and photographing weddings.
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Guys like me don't necessarily progress very far, which is fine.
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I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, finally believing that this was true.
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I'm a musician. I'm not, like, a personality. I've never really pretended to perform that kind of function.
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While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.
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I think movies lost a lot when they went to stereo and five-track sound.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go.
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I love cars, but I love bikes more.
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I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy. I've got to be puffing and sipping.
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No one ever died from smoking marijuana, but millions of people have died by believing politicians. So why is marijuana outlawed while politicians are still legal?
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The only time it got really crazy was during 'Batman.' Anywhere I went in the world, people knew who I was. I was being offered these huge films that would have taken my career to a different level, and I decided to put on the brakes. I knew if I continued on that track, I probably wouldn't have gotten married.
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The hate and scorn showered on us Negro officers by our fellow Americans convinced me that there was no sense in my dying for a world ruled by them. I made up my mind that if I got through this war I would study law and use my time fighting for men who could not strike back.
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Courtney Love is really cool and funny. I would like to meet Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz. I think I could play their daughters.
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I have to arrange my life very carefully. I need eight hours' sleep to work.
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Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
