George Fitzhugh Quotes
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But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.
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There was not a single Negro slave owner who did not know dozens of Negroes just as capable of learning and efficiency as the mass of poor white people around and about, and some quite as capable as the average slaveholder. They had continually, in the course of the history of slavery, recognized such men.
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I'm not obsessively a follower of fashion in the way I used to be. But I still have all those magazines I bought at the time because I bought ones that felt a little timeless, more like books.
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As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.
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I have this group of friends that I'll send my scripts to before I send them to a large audience.
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I have the support of my parents and my teachers. They made it very possible for me to go to a school that is open and supportive of me being gone at times and pursuing acting. But school always comes first for me.
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I would consider myself conservative but sensible and pragmatic.
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Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken.
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The young whites, and blacks, too, are the only hope that America has, the rest of us have always been living in a lie.
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To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week’s newspapers.
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As the moral gloom of the world overpowers all systematic gaiety, even so was their home of wild mirth made desolate amid the sad forest.
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In their nomination to office they will not appoint to the exercise of authority as to a pitiful job, but as to a holy function.
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So enough with the bigotry and bombast. Donald Trump's not offering real change. He's offering empty promises.
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The main objects of the Population Congress would be ... (f) to give certain dysgenic groups in our population their choice of segregation or sterilization.
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I understand his longing for immortality … Willy's writing his name in a cake of ice on a hot day, but he wishes he were writing in stone.
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I don't care what word you use: my job is to design clothing that is not out there for us.
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I didn't want to get into acting just to play bystanders. I feel a bystander enough in my own life. And I do think that theatre can contribute to a certain analysis and commentary on our own world.
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We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.
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A rite of passage in America when you turn 50 and have good health insurance is a colonoscopy.
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I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford.
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My father established the first women's university in the kingdom, abolished slavery, and tried to establish a constitutional monarchy that separates the position of king from that of prime minister.
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The startled terror of remorse that dares not think of what it fears, is as inconsistent as all other human feelings.
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The future has become uninhabitable. Such hopelessness can arise, I think, only from an inability to face the present, to live in the present, to live as a responsible being among other beings in this sacred world here and now, which is all we have, and all we need, to found our hope upon.
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Abolishing slavery leads to slaves without masters
