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- You can pray until you faint, but unless you get up and try to do something, God is not going to put it in your…
- We didn't come all the way up here to compromise for no more than we’d gotten here. We didn't come all this way for no two…
- No. What would I look like fighting for equality with the white man? I don't want to go down that low. I want the true democracy that'll…
- I feel sorry for anybody that could let hate wrap them up. Ain't no such thing as I can hate anybody and hope to see…
- With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by…
- ... some of my people could have been left [in Africa] and are living there. And I can't understand them and they don't know me…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
- Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom. — Kevyn Aucoin
- When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside… — Diane Ackerman
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong