Lena Horne Quotes

Nobody black or white who really believes in democracy can stand aside now; everybody's got to stand up and be counted.

Lena Horne

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• I mean, horror films in general put humans in these awful supernatural or horrible situations, but 'Cabin In The Woods' cranks it up a few notches and becomes outrageous and totally bizarre.

  

  Fran Kranz
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  • Mean
  • Supernatural

• The symbolic power of Barack Obama's presidency - that whiteness was no longer strong enough to prevent peons taking up residence in the castle - assaulted the most deeply rooted notions of white supremacy and instilled fear in its adherents and beneficiaries.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
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  • Power
  • Strong

• I feel like I grew up in the circus. I know planes, trains and automobiles. And really talented, weird people.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • People
  • Up
  • Know

• We believe it is comprehensive international sanctions against the white regime that will save us from the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of South Africans, black and white.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Believe
  • Black
  • Black-and-white

• What gets people into trouble with records now is that they want to build something up without substantial musical ideas. Without that as a foundation, you can add all the layers of sound you want - it's still going to sound like a mess.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
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  • Ideas

• Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

  

  H. L. Mencken
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  • Democracy
  • Ignorance

• I'm a TV junkie, so it's hard to choose just one. Currently I'm a slave to 'Black Sails,' 'Vikings,' 'Game of Thrones' and 'The Mindy Project.'

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Game
  • Black
  • Choose

• I gave up painting by 16. I secretly thought I would have been Rembrandt by then.

  

  Damien Hirst
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  • Thought
  • Painting

• When you put the pressure on yourself, it's not good. If you fight afraid to lose, you wind up not fighting that good.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
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  • Good
  • Fighting

• It's great, I guess, when your paintings are hanging up in a museum.

  

  Banksy
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• Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
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  • Running

• The great aim of your life should be to keep your powers up to the highest possible standard, to so conserve your energies, guard your health, that you can make every occasion a great occasion.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• To tell you the truth, I hadn't seen any Pixar until I went to see 'Wall-E,' and I watched it and I was shocked to see how adult it was, with the setting in our lives, both present and future, and how they dealt with it... And then quite relieved to find that the one I was working on, 'Up,' how adult it was.

  

  Ed Asner
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  • Truth
  • Future

• Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.

  

  H. Rap Brown
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• Whenever I see a tree that is climbable, it must be climbed. Sometimes when I'm on a run, I'll just run up a tree, jump on a branch and swing off. My favorite tree, in Saratoga, gets me a good 75 feet up.

  

  Aaron Patzer
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• Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
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  • Thinking
  • Reality

• I have vertigo. Vertigo makes it feel like the floor is pitching up and down. Things seem to be spinning. It's like standing on the deck of a ship in really high seas.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
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  • High
  • Feel

• When I started modeling, they tried to pay black models less than they paid Caucasian models. I turned down those jobs because I knew what I was worth.

  

  Iman
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  • Down
  • Modeling

• ‘Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness,Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time-’That’s the sort of thing she would have written before the rise of advertising. The correlation is perfectly clear. Advertising up, lyric poetry down.

  

  Frederik Pohl
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• I'm convinced after spending three weeks in China and Tibet, unless the United States gets its act together, our grandchildren will be living in a world dominated by the People's Republic. China is simply inexorable in its pursuit of wealth, growth and power. It cares little about human rights, democracy, labor protections, fair trade rules or the environment. It is relentless in advancing its national interests.

  

  Mort Kondracke
  • Together
  • Democracy
  • Interest

• Actions yield result by the ordinance of God as He wills.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • God
  • Result
  • Actions

• I don't like to photograph children as children. I like to see them as adults, as who they really are. I'm always looking for the side of who they might become.

  

  Mary Ellen Mark
  • Children

• This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent.

  

  Floyd Abrams
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  • Police
  • Dangerous

• Nobody black or white who really believes in democracy can stand aside now; everybody's got to stand up and be counted.

  

  Lena Horne
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