George Moses Horton Quotes
Oh! that my soul had winged its flight, When first I saw the morning light, To worlds of liberty!
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I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.
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Well, after the divorce, I went home and turned all the lights on!
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I want to have a long career.
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Being Jewish is a big part of my artistic sensibility and my humor... I think it gives me a certain take on the world on a literary level.
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You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!
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All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.
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I think being recognized more is something you have to get used to, whether it's here or in California or when I'm traveling. It's more a part of my life. People recognize me from my play or a commercial I've done. It's just a normal part of life now.
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Lara's done very well recently and I never had any doubts about the abilities of Lara or Waugh.
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I have stopped having goals. If you have many goals, and you don't reach your goals, it is very upsetting, so I just think of keeping it simple, working hard and going and playing the game. But I know there are going to be very important series for Indian cricket. I will just try my best to be in my fittest form.
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The Tax Division is committed to prosecuting accountants who assist their clients in fraudulent tax schemes.
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When you're in the middle of a pennant race, you can't go up there thinking about home runs.
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It's been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon, my home town, out on the edge of the prairie...
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A disease and its treatment can be a series of humiliations, a chisel for humility.
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Ratings agencies are the glue that ostensibly holds the entire financial industry together.
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The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion.
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General statements omit what we really want to know. Example: some horses run faster than others.
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You become more tolerant when you become older. You're not interested in rapping people over the knuckles; you're interested in understanding them.
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I get to tell the most interesting stories I know how to tell with the most interesting sentences I know how to compose - and people who aren't related to me read them. To be paid to write things that matter to me is extraordinary.
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Working in Hollywood for the orchestra world is a very time consuming and laborious job.
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I'm very picky, and I'm never 100% happy with the work I do; I hate watching myself and hearing my voice.
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I started looking into horse history books and came across the actual story of this half-breed endurance horseman and his painted mustang Hidalgo. I wasn't really sure if I was going to do the movie at that point.
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Oh! that my soul had winged its flight, When first I saw the morning light, To worlds of liberty!
