W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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Craig Newmark looks like the kind of guy who would help you move your apartment, sell your furniture, get a job, or help you find that cute girl you saw on the subway.
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If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorizing rather than being real. Maybe every other actor would think that was terrible, I don't know. But it seems to have worked for me, so far.
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You don't have to become Mother Teresa to make an impact in the world. But nothing can be achieved if, at the very least, we are not talking about it.
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It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen.
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My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.
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Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
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I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
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I am a leader in my own world. That's enough for me.
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There's not a thing that any of you guys can say bad about me that would hurt my feelings... I'm not coming at you, what I'm saying is that, I'm willing to take that heat for my team, if we're playing well or if we're not playing well.
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I am a big music nerd.
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I never predicted that I'd be a comedian, but it was something that came so naturally to me. I just felt good doing it.
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I like school very much, and I'll go to college if my career slows down. But kids go to college to be where I am today. Not to put college down, but for me, it would be digressing.
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Nobody can stop you but you. And shame on you if you're the one who stops yourself.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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Calling gender violence a women's issue is part of the problem. It gives a lot of men an excuse not to pay attention.
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You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements.
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So far, Vancouver is my favorite relocation city. It feels like home. Parts of it remind me of the east coast. It's very clean. The food is great. And the people are lovely. Not that I didn't love working in other glamorous locations like Downey, Detroit, Cleveland or Bulgaria... but, damn, it is fun to be Canadian.
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Ours is no bloody battle With woe and horror fraught Our joust is of a gentler kind A measuring of Mind with Mind A tournament of thought
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I finish, like, one book in a day. That's my problem. That's why Kindle is good for me, because I put, like, 15 books in it.
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Like a lot of girls, even I have this dream of being in the movies, and like any actor, I need to grow.
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Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England - Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation.
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The free market is at its best when everybody works in a fish bowl and tells you their point of view... The hedge funds and portfolio managers have a right to do this... We've muted the analysts and their presence in the system.
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I was born free.
