W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes
Strange, is it not, my brothers, how often in America those great watchwords of human energy - 'Be strong!' 'Know thyself!' 'Hitch your wagon to a star!' - how often these die away into dim whispers when we face these seething millions of black men? And yet do they not belong to them? Are they not their heritage as well as yours?
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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New Year's Eve, we're going to be doing a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Symphony Hall. It makes me feel good, because of all the people they could have had, they wanted me! We do have to do a little work with the rhythm section.
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To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.
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As a filmmaker, I really want to utilize the tools to carry the voice - my voice, and the voice of the characters.
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I love my sleep.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
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I think it's fine for girls to ask boys out. I actually prefer it.
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I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.
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I think I'm a good judge of character.
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You have to love your body, respect it, and treat it well.
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I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.
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I lost my mother and my brother when I was 15 in two separate car accidents. I was doing well at school. I was a good sportsperson, but at that point, I gave up on all of those things that were there to be done. I couldn't deal with them.
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I find it hard to act other than the way I feel.
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There are no silos at 'Frontline.' Our digital team works with our filmmakers, and our filmmakers work with our digital team. They're always in touch, and they're always talking.
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We all accept the visual shorthand used throughout comics: if something's farther away, it'll be drawn with a thinner, simpler line, eventually leaving out most visual information and becoming a gesture, a skeletal representation of a thing.
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Emotions should be real; one shouldn't come across as acting.
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Remarks by the President on the Administration's Approach to Counterterrorism (6 December 2016)
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I think that American women are further along than any other women in the world. But you can't have peace in a world in which some women or some men or some nations are at different stages of development. There is so much work to be done.
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The average Londoner knows just one neighbour. I travel a lot, and I'm always surprised by the strong sense of community in some countries. We've lost something fundamentally human, and we don't even realise it.
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The Dalai Lama was once asked for his favorite chant, and he said it was better not to have a favorite anything, which I think is a great thought.
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It's very hard to uphold individual liberty when the person you're representing is often a crook.
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Strange, is it not, my brothers, how often in America those great watchwords of human energy - 'Be strong!' 'Know thyself!' 'Hitch your wagon to a star!' - how often these die away into dim whispers when we face these seething millions of black men? And yet do they not belong to them? Are they not their heritage as well as yours?
