W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes

So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to sordid, selfish, shrewd plodders, full of distrust and sneers.

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• I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.

  

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  • Think
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• Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.

  

  Yahoo Serious
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• Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.

  

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• I like to discover new things.

  

  Olivier Megaton
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• Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.

  

  Sammi Hanratty
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• There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Invest
  • Horizon
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• I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until you're a mother.'

  

  Natasha Leggero
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• Truth never damages a cause that is just.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Never
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• But the issue has to do with land, which is our land.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Land
  • Issue
  • Which

• You're allowed to make things for women on television, and there's not like... you don't have to go through the humiliation of having made something directed at women. There it's just accepted, whereas if it's a feature, it's like 'So, talk to me about chick flicks.' It's like... I don't think you want to hear my opinion about this.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Women
  • Think
  • Me

• I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Like
  • Take
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• If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • You
  • Moment
  • Living

• The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin' Spoonful and everybody else.

  

  Barry McGuire
  • Music
  • American
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• When the 'Seinfeld' show said it was going to be a show about nothing, everybody said it couldn't - wouldn't work. It did. 'Thor' is about something, about that character finding his destiny, but it's not doing what was expected... and yet it's doing very well.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Work
  • Character
  • Destiny

• What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome.

  

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• I never left a team in worse shape than I got it. Not once.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Team
  • Never
  • Left

• With reporting, if you work hard, you can usually pull something out. But writing humor doesn't respond to working hard, necessarily. I mean, you could just sit there and look at the page all day and maybe something will come.

  

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• If you want to be of use to God, maintain the proper relationship with Jesus Christ by staying focused on Him & He will make use of you every minute you live- yet you will be unaware, on the conscious level of your life, that you are being used of Him.

  

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  • Life
  • God
  • Live

• The genius thing that we did was, we didn't give up.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Up
  • Giving
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• The east is not for me--the sensuous spiritual voluptuousness, the curious sensitiveness of the naked people, their black, bottomless, hopeless eyes.

  

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  • People
  • Black
  • Eyes

• Everybody's gone through some kind of struggle in their life, and I'd like to be the type of voice who talks about it.

  

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  • Life
  • Struggle

• Were there no fools, there would be no flatterers.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • Fools
  • Flatterers

• So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to sordid, selfish, shrewd plodders, full of distrust and sneers.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Life
  • High
  • Learning