W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes
A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.W. E. B. Du Bois
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Maybe 10 times a year I'll do a corporate date, but no casinos or no nightclubs or no comedy clubs.
Gabe Kaplan -
I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
Nas -
If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.
Wendell Berry -
I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
Viggo Mortensen -
I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
Parker Posey -
As for advice for aspiring authors, the best I can give is to be brave. It sounds like a simple enough thing, but it's not. Rejection is such an integral part of this journey, and it never goes away.
V. E. Schwab
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Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.
Pat Riley -
A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.
Mae West -
In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
Salman Rushdie -
The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.
Harry A. Blackmun -
You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.
Nathan Fillion -
The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
T. Boone Pickens
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No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
Federico Fellini -
Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
Sammy Hagar Van Halen -
Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.
Jack Benny -
Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
Irene Rosenfeld -
Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is.
Garry Shandling -
Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut.
Paloma Elsesser
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I think sometimes writers can get themselves into trouble trying to exert a totally controlled and super-knowing tone. This kind of knowingness is not the most promising tone to be sustained throughout a novel, to have a young woman who understands everybody and is always reading a room perfectly.
Rachel Kushner -
When there’s something in the Word of God that I don’t like, the problem is not with the Word of God, it’s with me.
R. C. Sproul -
I don't want to play the same person twice, that's not why I wanted to act.
Jennifer Jason Leigh -
'Until Friday Night' is the first book in my new young adult series, 'The Field Party.'
Abbi Glines -
It is often constructive to meet with a candidate for a particular office, but I believe what is most important is the candidate's track record.
Kenneth C. Griffin -
A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.
W. E. B. Du Bois