W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes
Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it. All, nevertheless, flutter round it. How does it feel to be a problem?W. E. B. Du Bois
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
Felix Adler -
I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
Larry Wilcox -
I don't think I have a signature.
J. J. Abrams -
A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief idyllic time in 1910, Hollywood looked like the perfect place for a successful writer to settle down, build his dream house, and maybe do some gardening.
Kage Baker -
I can tell you I'm not exactly sure why I teach. I think a lot of it is just it's the sense of community. A real desire to be involved both with people older than myself and people younger.
Edgar Meyer -
Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There's no better way to get your point across than to put it in a beautiful song.
Ed Sheeran
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Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?
J. M. Coetzee -
Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
Yoko Ono -
I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
Camille Claudel -
We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
Karin Slaughter -
Security for agriculture merits serious concern by not only the agricultural community but our nation as a whole. The risk to the U.S. food supply and overall economy is real.
Pat Roberts -
I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
L. J. Smith
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I get homesick.
Larry Bird -
I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
Damon Galgut -
All of my main characters have been under 30.
Tamra Davis -
Accept it or not, every star, actor, and director wants to work on larger-than-life films.
Ram Charan -
As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
Felix Baumgartner -
I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
Patrick Wang
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There is no world of absolute, complete privacy or a world of complete national security.
Andrew McCabe -
I'm not sure Riot Grrrl would have been as big a deal if the Internet had existed back then. Because there's so much stuff on the Internet. People could have been like, oh, whatever, I'm going to go look at pictures of Barbie vaginas, you know what I mean? There's so many different things on the Internet, you read one article and then you read something linked off that article and you go down the rabbit hole.
Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill -
I am not yet born; forgive meFor the sins that in me the world shall commit, my wordsWhen they speak me, my thoughts when they think me,My treason engendered by traitors beyond me,My life when they murder by means of myHands, my death when they live me.
Louis MacNeice -
the bells of glory that announced to the world the good news that the uncountable time of eternity had come to an end
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
You could be the world's best garbage man, the world's best model; it don't matter what you do if you're the best.
Muhammad Ali -
Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it. All, nevertheless, flutter round it. How does it feel to be a problem?
W. E. B. Du Bois