W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes
When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.
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I was raised Catholic in Rockford, Illinois. But I'm not a practicing Catholic anymore. Oh God, no.
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I am really curious about life, about why we are all here. I notice my skin is ageing, things are changing, I've seen people dying, so that's the train we are all on.
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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It's not that I don't want a fast car. I like the speed. I'm just not the type of person who finds a sports car a sexy car.
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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Our concern is to heal. Our concern is to bring together.
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I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
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I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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Archery requires very sensitive muscles.
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Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.
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I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.
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Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
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'Trolls' was a blank slate - there was no world, no mythology. We talked a lot about the Grinch and we liked how they showed his heart growing, but how do you show a photographable device like that for the Bergens? We ended up using color for a lot of that: desaturating and then pulling the saturation up.
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Bolivar's legacy has always been a part of the Venezuelan/Latin American imagery, especially in the countries that he liberated or he helped to liberate. He's been a very prominent figure.
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We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
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If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.
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The Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it's two years, five years, ten or fifteen. And say it's a good thing.
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One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.
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Anyone taking heroin is thinking about taking heroin more than they're thinking about anything else. That's the general rule about most drugs.
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We in America count on the profit motive to get people to do the right thing. That's our basic American notion when it comes to business.
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One of my intentions with 'Rookie' is for the girls reading it to know that they are already cool enough and smart enough and pretty enough.
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I’m just very careful with my words when I write. Obsessively careful. I’m the sort of person who worries about the difference between 'slim' and 'slender.'
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When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.
