W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes
The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line: the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea.
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I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.
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I can now say that the more I learnt about Islam, the more tolerant I became.
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I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
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The best time to release a film is on a festive date like Divali or Eid, or at a time when there are no big films three to four weeks before or after.
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I enjoy my life.
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EO 11110 did not order the printing of Silver Certificates. It ordered the amendment of a previous executive order so that the United States Code would authorize or 'empower' the Secretary of the Treasury to issue Silver Certificates if the occasion should arise.
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I'd like to explore the more abstract side of people's minds, as opposed to the usual sitcom stuff. I don't want to do the typical sitcom-type humor. I'd want to do stuff like go bowling with pineapples.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater student, I was acting, I was doing comedy, I was doing dramatic stuff, so it's been something that I've always done and enjoyed doing and had an instinct to be relatively good at.
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The problem with forbearance is that it always looks like a good thing to do until it stops working.
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To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form – and local human passions and conditions and standards – are depicted as native to other worlds and universes.
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In nature there are few sharp lines.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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Figure out who you are.
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Holding on to hope when everything is dark, is the greatest test of faith
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Almost every one of my various zero numbered birthdays has had a big concert in London and often in Paris.
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We knew shortly after the war that our troops were becoming ill.
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In truth, ending DACA will cost us tens of thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in economic activity.
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The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line: the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea.
