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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.
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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.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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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.
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Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
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Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.
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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.
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Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is.
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Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut.
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'In My Hands,' the title track, is my very first vocal attempt, and I'm not a singer as such. But I've always wanted to express myself vocally on my albums, and I don't really have much of a capability for singing. The strength is in, I think, the lyrics and just speaking. It just comes from inside.
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We have to make it clear to the multi-nationals that slavery is too high a price to pay for cheap goods
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Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers.
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You learn more about yourself in intimate relationships than any other endeavor. I can go do 'King and I' and sing out in front of 1,000-plus people, but trying to open up about something that's bothering me with somebody that I'm in a relationship with? That's the scariest thing.
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I didn't look at it as a transition so much, because I never intended to have a career as a journalist, writing about people who make movies.
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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.
