Gerrit Smith Quotes
We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be.
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With a 3D printer, you could build your own car, one part at a time. When you were finished, you'd have an automobile that is extremely lightweight because it is made of plastic, which is good because you'd need to carry it because it is made of plastic.
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I don't eat animals. I rescue strays and take injured pigeons to the wildlife rehab. I carry spiders and wasps outside in a cup covered with a 3x5 card. It would only follow that I'd take pause when contemplating the abrupt and apparently brutal ending of a tiny human being's life, or even a potential human being's life.
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As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.
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I am no fashion diva - I grew up on the beaches in South Africa and am a nature girl that spends a lot of time outdoors. Fashion speaks to me through an occasion.
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I'm not a gun person by any stretch of the imagination, and it's not something I feel comfortable participating in.
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I only use my sick days for hang-overs and soap opera weddings.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.
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Oh my God, Nicole is killed? Oh my God, she is dead?
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There are no silos at 'Frontline.' Our digital team works with our filmmakers, and our filmmakers work with our digital team. They're always in touch, and they're always talking.
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To me, hip hop will never be right until female rappers have a stronger voice in it.
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If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's just about making the workouts fun, I think, and then it doesn't really feel that bad.
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Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.
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I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were movie stars. And I was very aware that they were going to go out of fashion.
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I feel it most in my work, because there aren't roles about women who are spiritually evolving. That anyone would even write something like that, something that's worth doing, would be a miracle!
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Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well.
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Without literature my life would be miserable.
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People around me like me the best when I'm depressed because I'm a bit more passive.
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Only my phone number and email are private because I don't want random people calling me. But I like the ability to share everything.
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You wish me to tell you why and how God should be loved. My answer is that God himself is the reason he is to be loved.
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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes, they forgive them.
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That's one of the biggest losses, I think, to African American families, is that people, once they left, they turned away from the South. They didn't look back, and they often didn't tell their children about it. They didn't want to talk about it. It was too painful, what they'd gone through and the caste system of the South, which was Jim Crow.
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We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be.
