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John Dalberg-Acton Quotes

Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.

John Dalberg-Acton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: english
Birth: January 10, 1834 - June 19, 1902

Topics

Best Book Others Content Seek

I think that's the great thing about all 'Black Mirror' episodes - it really leaves you with this feeling of not knowing how to feel.

Great Mirror Black Think Not Knowing

Different identity groups hold specific levels of power over others when their battles play out in the media. To wit: Black beats white. Gay beats white. Black beats gay.

Andrew Breitbart

Power Identity Black Media Gay Play

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.

Man Person Nobody Right Property

As a black woman, I feel like I have a unique experience that we don't often see in media portrayals of the South.

Experience Woman Black Feel Media

The importance of first-week sales has kind of diminished, in our opinion, in the industry, and we don't really know what it really means anymore. It is what it is in the industry. And for us, it's all about the endgame, not where it begins.

Opinion Know Kind Sales Industry Us

Eleven days before 9/11, I was on a plane with the 9/11 hijackers who were carrying out a dry run.

Run Out Days Dry Who Carrying

I had worked in TV prior to working on 'Game of Thrones' - 'Game of Thrones' is far more cinematic than any other television show that I had done before, and so I feel that the worlds of TV and film are most definitely merging as one.

Game Feel Television Done More Film

Most organizations should be pro-active, but philanthropists concerned with poverty should deliberately be reactive, learning from the efforts of ordinary folks who tired of looking the other way as their communities fell apart.

Learning Tired Looking Poverty Way

I've learned that you don't need a lot in life. If it can't fit into a suitcase, you don't really need it.

Life You Need Fit Suitcase Learned

I learned something from that. If someone asks me something that I really don't want to do, I say no. I have to trust that. And I'm not afraid to talk money.

Trust Money Me Someone Say Want

People who rooted for me and were impactful in my career knew everything about me. They knew my goals, my likes, my dislikes, what I wanted out of my career.

Goals People Me Career Everything

I'll play out the string and leave baseball without a tear. A man can't play games his whole life.

Brooks Robinson

Life Man Baseball Play Games Leave

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