W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes
The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world's need of that work. With this, life is heaven, or as near heaven as you can get. Without this - with work which you despise, which bores you, and which the world does not need - this life is hell.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
Viggo Mortensen
I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
Yves Chauvin
The two most important things in my life were academics and sports. I had to do my schoolwork first.
Gabriel Luna
In occupied Iraq, the introduction of new paper money took almost a year, 20 or so Boeing 747s, the mobilisation of the U.S. military's might, three printing firms, and hundreds of trucks.
Yanis Varoufakis
We're living at a time where if you do a Google search for a 'show, review and network,' you'll get 'The New York Times' and Pete Billingsley from a town you've never heard of on the same results page. It's kind of democratizing the process so that everyone has access to a distribution system to express themselves.
J. J. Abrams
There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.
Caitlyn Jenner
Know you food, know your farmers, and know your kitchen. Start building up your larder! We don't even use that term any more.
Joel Salatin
I decided to always sing in the back with the chorus and never went up front because I had trouble performing.
Patti LaBelle
People's attitudes have been changing over the past 15 years, but China is still the world's biggest consumer of dogs.
Jill Robinson
The gay people I knew in real life were soft spoken and didn't want to call attention to themselves because they were terrified of exposing themselves, of people finding out that they're gay.
Chris Colfer
I haven't done any genealogical exploring myself, though members of my family and also of my husband's family have traced things back. I have a great grandfather on my mother's side who was a musician, and I'd like to know more about his life.
Kim Edwards
The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world's need of that work. With this, life is heaven, or as near heaven as you can get. Without this - with work which you despise, which bores you, and which the world does not need - this life is hell.
W. E. B. Du Bois