W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes

I am especially glad of the divine gift of laughter: it has made the world human and lovable, despite all its pain and wrong.

W. E. B. Du Bois

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• I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.

  

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• I'm a little sheepish about it. Whenever I meet fans and they're like, 'Oh, you're so sexy,' I just don't get that. There's no way one man can be universally sexy.

  

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• I like to do everything myself - I'm very hands-on with my housekeeping, my children, travelling, how I do things.

  

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• I don't see myself as the king of Bitcoin. I don't want to be the king of Bitcoin.

  

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• Maybe I was unpopular a bit because I was a teacher's pet. But even the teachers complained about me. They would say to my parents, 'For every one question any pupil asks, Walter asks 10.'

  

  Walter O'Brien
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• It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.

  

  Zig Ziglar
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• The crown of literature is poetry.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
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• The historian is a prophet looking backward.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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• It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments I don't particularly know how to play, and then I become excited.

  

  P. J. Harvey
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• My granddad was a hard worker, and my dad is, too. It was instilled in me as a kid. I never got pocket money; I had to earn it. I had two paper rounds before school, not just one. Wherever I worked, whether it was at football, in the pub, I'd do whatever was asked of me - and more.

  

  Olly Murs
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• I loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.

  

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• It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
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• There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
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• I know people from working with them on films, but they're not the ones I would meet up with... I'm just a normal person!

  

  Dakota Blue Richards
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• I will say that the food in both Japan and Italy was immaculate. I don't remember having bad food in either country.

  

  Daniel Gillies
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• I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens.

  

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• I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date.

  

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• As you stop trying to forcibly manage the thoughts, beliefs and actions that arise from your mind and ask instead to be guided by a source greater than yourself, you will find a world of support showing up in surprising ways.

  

  Debbie Ford
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• The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.

  

  William Butler Yeats
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• The point of your life is to point to Him...it is His movie, His world, His gift.

  

  Francis Chan
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• Elves are cool, man.

  

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• Aretha Franklin was tough. She turned out to be good, but she was, you know, she was - she's a very - she's a very wonderful, but in some ways, shy woman. You don't think about that when you see how she emotes and performs.

  

  Ed Bradley
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• I am especially glad of the divine gift of laughter: it has made the world human and lovable, despite all its pain and wrong.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • World
  • Pain
  • Laughter