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Du Bois marked a great stage in the history of Negro struggles when he said that Negroes could no longer accept the subordination which Booker T. Washington had preached.
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It's no secret that I'm called to a different place, maybe, for some of the beliefs in the LGBTQ community because of my faith. With that said, I'm also called to be accepting and compassionate.
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Crime novels, it has been said, show the human psyche under pressure.
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It never became an obsession for me to score at all costs. I've always said that I'm not a big scorer, I'm a worker.
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I have said consistently both in my papers and in my speeches - which you heard in the primary campaign - that I will continue to phase out the Capital Stock and Franchise tax.
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I'm a big Michael Lewis fan. That said, my favorite Lewis book was 'The Blind Side.'
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Twenty years ago, I said there was going to be something that would stop the Soviet Union from taking over the world. And now we see that the Soviet Union has been stopped, through its own disintegration.
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Even when everything seems rotten you can't trust that judgment. It's the sum of all your judgments that counts.
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I have a terrible tendency to lick my fingers when I cook. So much so that I got a telling off from my pastry teacher years ago, who said it would hinder my prospects.
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As President Obama clearly said just a few months ago, China must play by the international rules, the international trading system from which they've benefited so much.
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It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.
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We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?
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Though there are some notable exceptions, by and large the persistent ranting of the Warren Commission critics, some of whom were screaming the word 'conspiracy' before the fatal bullet had even come to rest, came to remind me, as H. L. Mencken said in a different context, of dogs barking idiotically through endless nights.
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When I came out, I told my stepmother Gladys, and she just said she had known for years and was glad I wasn't lying anymore.
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My mom always said that if the Protestants catch a Catholic in their church, they feed them to the Jews.
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Just come in there and stand before a live crowd, thousands of people at an Ivy League School, like Eleanor Roosevelt said, always do what you're afraid to do.
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It's been said that astronomy is a humbling and, I might add, a character-building experience.
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I'm not politically correct; I never said I was.
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Helmet was joined to helmet, and spear to spear, and jewels, baggage, and elephants without number went with them, and you would have said it was a host that none could understand.
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My mother always said don't marry for money, divorce for money.
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Every TV timeout, I went up and said it right to Brady: 'Please keep trying me. I'm going to take it from you.'
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My momma always said, 'You and Elvis are pretty good, but y'all ain't no Chuck Berry.
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That's what everyone said attracted them to Lantana - I call it an adult mystery, because it's not a thriller in the sense of that other way, but it is a mystery.
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I won't name any names, but I've done a couple of shows where once the pilot got picked up, the creators openly said, 'I have no idea where we're going.'
