W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes
We cannot hope, then, in this generation, or for several generations, that the mass of the whites can be brought to assume that close sympathetic and self-sacrificing leadership of the blacks which their present situation so eloquently demands. Such leadership, such social teaching and example, must come from the blacks themselves.
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A lot of the time I'm working with people who are older than me.
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I will do today what others won't so I can do tomorrow what others can't.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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Food production has affected the environment more than any other activity humans have engaged in. Humanity devotes more land to food production than anything else - roughly a third of the surface area of the earth, much of which was once forest but has been converted by humans into farms or grazing lands.
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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
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Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.
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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
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In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.
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I think feminism's a bit misinterpreted. It was about casting off all gender roles. There's nothing wrong with a man holding a door open for a girl. But we sort of threw away all the rules, so everybody's confused. And dating becomes a sloppy, uncomfortable, unpleasant thing.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.
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Everyone is just nicer to prettier people.
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Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.
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I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?
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It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.
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I also like some of Joel Osteen's work. I think he's now doing a book about one of my favorite sermons of his, "The Power of 'I Am.' " I just love that sermon.
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I don't want them to take my money, either. That's just like taking it and burning it.
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I don't even like to go out onto the streets sometimes because I can't get anything done. People want pictures and autographs all the time.
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Sam [Mendes] said he took advantage of the fact that Kate and I were so close for many years. He knew it was something he could harness in our performances, and we knew that too.
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Sancho Panza by name is my own self, if I was not changed in my cradle.
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We cannot hope, then, in this generation, or for several generations, that the mass of the whites can be brought to assume that close sympathetic and self-sacrificing leadership of the blacks which their present situation so eloquently demands. Such leadership, such social teaching and example, must come from the blacks themselves.
