W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes
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Whenever I'm waiting behind the stage, it's kind of like my normal Jackie mode is me talking a lot, playing around, but superstar Jackie mode is me concentrating on making sure that this performance was going to be a great performance.
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I usually get all my stress and anger out at the gym. But when I get out, I'm kind of a pleasant person - really.
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The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.
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It's almost like he's started to sound even more exotic the more people started doing him. I don't know why, but there's just something about Al Gore that makes me laugh.
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I am blessed to have worked in big-budget films at an early stage of my career.
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I suppose anybody just losing it and sputtering curses is pretty funny. But I think it would be more of a challenge, much more of a challenge, to make a cursing dad funny.
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Relatively, a very small percentage of betting takes place on hockey and even baseball because of the nature of the game and the scoring.
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Lighter computers and lighter sensors would let you have more function in a given weight, which is very important if you are launching things into space, and you have to pay by the pound to put things there.
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The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.
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If you don't change, you're dead, so I try to keep changing.
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Armenian folklore has it that three apples fell from Heaven: one for the teller of a story, one for the listener, and the third for the one who 'took it to heart.' What a pity Heaven awarded no apple to the one who wrote the story down.
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When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.
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As a woman, as a Jew, as a lesbian, as a labor leader in a time of great anti-union animus, I know that other people project their biases on me. But it is nothing like the experience of our African-American brothers and sisters, especially black and brown men and boys.
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The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
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We need to find a way to empower citizens to make governments take notice.
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None of them want to delay. Understand that. None of them.
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I made a decision when I was in school that I'd have a lot of male friends.
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Hats look exactly the same. There's no difference between The Writing Hat and The Acting Hat.
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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
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I am extremely privileged to serve Rhode Island in the United States Senate, and that is my only goal and aspiration.
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The cheek Is apter than the tongue to tell an errand.
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Nature has an economy, an elegance, a style, that if we could but emulate it we could rise out of the rubble we are making out of the planet
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I must say that though other days may not be so bright, as we look toward the future, that the brightest days will continue to be those we spent with you here in Ireland.
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Liberty trains for liberty. Responsibility is the first step in responsibility.
