Elizabeth Keckley Quotes
When I heard the words, I felt as if the blood had been frozen in my veins, and that my lungs must collapse for the want of air. Mr. Lincoln shot!
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.
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You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.
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I'm sure people in the business have said: She's too old for that part. I don't hear about it because your agent protects you from those negative things.
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I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.
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When I post, I forget I’m famous. It’s a really bad thing.
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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.
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I live a normal lifestyle, but I try to make healthy decisions while doing it.
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If they knocked two of your guys down, I'd get four. You have to protect your hitters.
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Conditions are ripe for triumph. We will win. And we will wield great power here.
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Don't accept that you are in crisis just because everyone says you are.
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I try not to get too self-absorbed.
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The design of a city is like a strange archeology.
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They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that 'one man is as good as another;' a maxim that is true in neither nature, revealed morals, nor political theory.
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Macauley Culkin was on the show a lot. Or Haley Joe Osment.
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I couldn't speak English. I'm in kindergarten, and the only reason I got through to first grade is because I cheated.
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President Lincoln chose to fight a bloody and unpopular war because he believed the enemy had to be defeated. He was right.
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Once the church is ready to associate with instituted power it is obliged to associate with all and sundry forms of the state. The scandal is that each time the church seeks to justify both its adaptation and the existing power. It continues to legitimize the state and to be an instrument of its propaganda.
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When discussing the rise and fall of empires, it is well to mark closely their rate of growth, avoiding the temptation to telescope time and discover too early signs of greatness in a state which we know will one day be great, or to predict too early the collapse of an empire which we know will one day cease to be. The life-span of empires cannot be plotted by events, only by careful diagnosis and ausculation--and as in medicine there is always room for error.
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With super PACs, we've seen voter turnout go up; interest in elections rise; and the number of competitive races increase. The campaigns of 2010 and 2012 have been more issue-oriented than their predecessors, not less.
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Writing freezes speech and in so doing gives birth to the grammarian, the logician, the rhetorician, the historian, the scientist - all those who must hold language before them so that they can see what it means, where it errs, and where it is leading.
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Being traumatized is not just an issue of being stuck in the past; it is just as much a problem of not being fully alive in the present.
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When I heard the words, I felt as if the blood had been frozen in my veins, and that my lungs must collapse for the want of air. Mr. Lincoln shot!
