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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Being an artist is a lifestyle.
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Too many people, because they were white and poor, black and rich, or just plain busy with something other than politics, have felt they had no voice in our government.
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It is always nice to get to finals, but never nice to lose in them.
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When some of these big companies realize how much money there is to make, those ports will start being able to take shipments.
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The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.
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Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.
