W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes
I am one who tells the truth and exposes evil and seeks with Beauty for Beauty to set the world right.
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From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.
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I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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I have two main bass guitars, and my main bass is a four-string 1964 Fender Jazz, and I've named it Justine.
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I have my own faith which I've developed. It's non-denominational. I don't even know if it's about God.
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In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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I like to stand right in front of my opponent. I think it makes for an exciting fight.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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For many children, the library represents their only access to books, reading, and the Internet outside of their home. If you think about how far behind a child would be without access to these fundamental tools - tools that are vital to successful employment later in life - it's a travesty.
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I'm an honest, open father.
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Getting into Sundance is such a big platform for a director.
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Give news a little more time, and don't request that they also, in their news time, entertain. We're not entertainers. We're journalists. And we need more time to do our job well.
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Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.
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I was a curious child. I'd debate with anyone who came to the door - people from the Islamic community... Jehovah's Witnesses... anyone.
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I developed this - I don't know, like a burning love, almost, inside of me that I just wanted to get up, and I just wanted to skate every single day and get better.
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Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.
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Life is short, the art long.
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The first thing you have to do if you want to raise nice kids, is you have to talk to them like they are people instead of talking to them like they're property.
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I think we live in an entertainment world where performers like to flaunt how great they are. The Conchords don't do that. Even when they stumble onstage, people like it.
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Twitter has to be about art. It can't be about banal things. Banal things and art are two different worlds.
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My platitudes don't hold their interest and I can hardly blame them for that. My real stories are all out of date. So what if I can speak firsthand about the Spanish flu, the advent of the automobile, world wars, cold wars, guerrilla wars, and Sputnik — that's all ancient history now. But what else do I have to offer? Nothing happens to me anymore. That's the reality of getting old, and I guess that's really the crux of the matter. I'm not ready to be old yet.
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I am one who tells the truth and exposes evil and seeks with Beauty for Beauty to set the world right.
