Barney Ross Quotes
Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.
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The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.
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Sometimes, I'm driving along in my car, and a song from my high-school years comes on the radio: Springsteen's 'Thunder Road.' Just the opening few chords make me want to roll down the window and let the wind blow back my hair.
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Also, an area that interests me – and it will probably take years to state what I mean – is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th.
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I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.
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The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.
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We are so blessed to be here in America. We have freedom and opportunity unlike anywhere else in the world.
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I'm happy that all my films are different from one another.
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You just have to re-wire your brain when you're shifting from the stage to the screen or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.
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I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... working on a movie... leading acting workshops all over the world... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women.
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I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.
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I came to Berlin not to visit its museums and galleries, its operas, its theaters... but for the sake of seeing and speaking with the world's greatest living man - Alexander von Humboldt.
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My mom was scared of the old Times Square so I was never allowed to go. Now I'm scared of the new Times Square, so I still never go.
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Religion and education are no match for evil without the grace of God.
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Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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You have to keep listening and thinking and being critical and self-critical. Remember General Nivelle, in the First World War, at Verdun? He said he had the solution and then destroyed the French Army until it mutinied.
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The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'
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Despite the strength of the feminist movement in the 1970s and beyond, a fable has persisted that educated women are rejected as marriage partners.
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We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.
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It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they didn't go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.
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For NASA, space is still a high priority.
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I believe that the open exchange of information can have a positive global impact.
Biz Stone -
The most fun you can possibly have as an actor is to walk that line between what's real and what's interesting.
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Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.
