W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes
If you want to feel humor too exquisite and subtle for translation, sit invisibly among a gang of Negro workers.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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The relevant poems are Milton's Paradise Lost, Pope's Essay on Man, Wordsworth's Excursion, Tennyson's In Memoriam.
Alfred North Whitehead
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I think a dream can take you farther than anything.
Anna Sui
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How short our span! If you once realized how brief, you would refrain from causing any beast or man the smallest grief, the slightest pain.
Angelus Silesius
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To complete a work is just like being present at the death of someone you love.
Claude Debussy
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As anyone who has the slightest knowledge of my work knows, I have little in common with Larkin, who was tall, taciturn and thin-on-top, and unlike him I laugh, nay, sneer, in the face of death. I will concede one point: we are both lesbian poets.
Carol Ann Duffy
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The reports of my death have been greatly understated.
Morrissey
The Smiths
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I tend to root for characters who have a lot of negative qualities, but what's driving them forward is their passion. They're on a mission, and maybe their approach is misguided, but you can't fault them for giving 150%.
Laurie Metcalf
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Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.
James A. Garfield
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I think a lot of ladies get quite scared about people like me, 'rock stars', and it can be hard to meet the right sort of person.
Jay Kay
Jamiroquai
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I enjoy modeling. I feel that acting is more fulfilling for me, and you definitely have a lot more to contribute as an actress than you do as a model, but that being said, when I shoot with a really incredible photographer, it's exciting and inspiring.
Emily Ratajkowski
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Theater is a living creature. It takes a while to break in, like a new pair of shoes.
Darren Criss
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You only live once. Trying to do the right thing for other people often doesn't work out, and you have to follow your own path in order to make things work out best for everyone.
Alison Pill
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I definitely had fun being a waiter. I can't say for sure that I was a good waiter. I think that I made people have a good time.
John Krasinski
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What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all.
Anton Chekhov
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On 'This Is England,' everyone is mates. The nice thing is that when you watch us, you're watching a gang. They're young, and they're adventurous. There's a real closeness there.
Joe Gilgun
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I think they've always gone on. I've gotten some irate letters from oldsters saying 'We did this in the 1930s. You didn't invent anything.' And I'm like, 'Gramps, you should have put a name on it and sold it, because that’s all I did.'
Chuck Palahniuk
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When that strange race nears the dust and is condemned as untouchable, then nature remembers the physical perfection that she accomplished elsewhere, and throws out a god-not many, but one here and there, to prove to society how little its categories impress her.
E. M. Forster
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If you want to feel humor too exquisite and subtle for translation, sit invisibly among a gang of Negro workers.
W. E. B. Du Bois
