Claude McKay Quotes
I know the dark delight of being strange,The penalty of difference in the crowd,The loneliness of wisdom among fools

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Anyone can wear any color. The question is about finding the right shade. There is a momentary trend to dark colors because when the financials are not that great, people go for black, navy and grey.
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Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.
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When you a darker brunette and have pale skin like I do, it can wash you out a bit, so learning to contour is really helpful. I think you can be a bit more bold with eye makeup to define your eyes, and the same with lip colors - you can go for dark wine colors, which I love.
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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If I wasn't an actress, I'd never wear make up. I liked being ready in half an hour and arrive on the sets. Even for a no-makeup look, if one has a dark under-eye on a particular day, a little makeup is used. I had no scope for that as well.
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I want to do work that has a message and casts a light over an area that's dark. But I'm fun and jovial, too.
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My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
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It's critical that we use a very dark brush to paint evil. When you bring the light into that darkness as characterized in John 1, that light is very vivid. When it dispels the darkness, we see the brilliance that's there.
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That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me.
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In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
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If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
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One thing I love about being back is English rain. Looking out of the window now, it's raining, and the sky is dark; I love it. To me, those are reassuringly English things. I love it when it rains.
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I majored in Southern history in college, and much of my early work at my first job - as a staff writer at 'Memphis' magazine - focused on race relations.
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Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.
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No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President, I never will.
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I am attracted to the dark side of life!
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Don't assume that what we currently think is out there is the full story. Go after the dark matter, in whatever field you choose to explore.
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Wisdom is better than silver and gold
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In this time when a citizenry applauds the liberation of a country as it lives in fear of its own freedom, when people all over the country fear reprisal if they use their right to free speech, it is time to get angry. It is time to get fierce.
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'Women have come a long way, of course: we can all be left alone at night now. But sometimes it seems a high price to pay. We can also open the door cheerfully to strangers at any hour, deal with obscene telephone calls and mend fuses.'
Anita Brookner -
I don't think all buildings have to be iconic, but the history of the world has shown us that cultures build iconic buildings for their major public buildings.
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I've been very lucky to have had the opportunity to play a diverse cast of characters in the short time I've been a voice actor.
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I know the dark delight of being strange,The penalty of difference in the crowd,The loneliness of wisdom among fools