W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes

Liberty trains for liberty. Responsibility is the first step in responsibility.

W. E. B. Du Bois

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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.

  

  Natalie Martinez
  • Kind
  • Stress
  • Gym

• The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.

  

  Ralph Adams Cram
  • Great
  • War
  • Progressive

• 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.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • People
  • Why
  • Sound

• I am blessed to have worked in big-budget films at an early stage of my career.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Career
  • Stage
  • Films

• 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.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Pretty
  • Funny
  • Dad

• Relatively, a very small percentage of betting takes place on hockey and even baseball because of the nature of the game and the scoring.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Nature
  • Game
  • Small

• 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.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Important
  • Space
  • Computers

• The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Peace
  • Sorry
  • Been

• If you don't change, you're dead, so I try to keep changing.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Change
  • Try
  • Changing

• 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.

  

  Nancy Willard
  • Heart
  • Heaven
  • Three

• When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Thinking
  • Dog
  • Judging

• 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.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• 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.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • World
  • Political
  • Serious

• We need to find a way to empower citizens to make governments take notice.

  

  Ian Goldin
  • Find
  • Need
  • Empower

• None of them want to delay. Understand that. None of them.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Want
  • Understand
  • Delay

• I made a decision when I was in school that I'd have a lot of male friends.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • School
  • Friends
  • Decision

• A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • You
  • Thought
  • Original

• We all self-conscious. I'm just the first to admit it.

  

  Kanye West
  • First
  • Just
  • Admit

• Coach Wooden, when he speaks, you listen. I've taken a lot of things from him and his little blue book because to him, it's not just about basketball, it's about life as well.

  

  Kevin Love
  • Life
  • Book
  • Taken

• A friend of mine, Derek Simmons, who's been on the podcast, said, "If more information were the answer, we'd all be billionaires with perfect dads." It comes down to motivation and incentives. If it isn't a punishment or a reward, then it's just talk.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Friend
  • motivation
  • Punishment

• All I needed was a friend to lend a guiding hand. But you turned into a lover, and mother what a lover, you wore me out.

  

  Rod Stewart
  • Mother
  • Friendship
  • Hands

• Being thrown out of this place is significantly better than being thrown out of a leper colony.

  

  Blake Edwards

• I care about Roger Sterling, one of the most subtle and amazing characters in dramatic history ["Mad Men"]. This guys who knows precisely who he is, yet leaves us time after time hoping desperately for him to finally grab control of his life and some responsibility for those around him.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Life
  • Time
  • Men

• Liberty trains for liberty. Responsibility is the first step in responsibility.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Responsibility