Jean Toomer Quotes

Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters.

Jean Toomer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 26, 1894 - March 30, 1967

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If we should have to fight, we should be prepared to so so from the neck up instead of from the neck down.

Jimmy Doolittle

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Afghan human rights campaigners worry that U.S. forces may be using secret detention sites like the one allegedly at Rish-Khor to carry out interrogations away from prying eyes. The U.S. military, however, denies even having knowledge of the facility.

Anand Gopal

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I know who I am, and I know what my ambitions are. If one kid sees me on TV or sees me in a movie and relates, then I'm done. That's perfectly fine. That's enough for me.

Troye Sivan

I AmMeEnoughKnowDoneKid

In ramp skating, there's this guy Alex Perelson who's really coming into his own and doing some amazing new stuff we haven't seen before. Just different types of spin.

Tony Hawk

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The American people are much more practical than Republican lawmakers on equal pay, on the minimum wage, on same-sex marriage, and on basic civil rights.

Luis Gutierrez

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As a writer, I have to show complexities. Through my writings, I hope to bring out people in different situations and not just one-dimensional beings.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

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I would say the youth systems in Germany have impressed me the most and how they grow their youth players into full professionals.

Christian Pulisic

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There are a lot of people who dream of overnight success, of being Brad Pitt getting discovered for 'Thelma and Louise,' but that doesn't always happen. I represent that stick-to-it-ness that it takes to build a career over time, guest spot by guest spot. Looking back from here, I wouldn't have wanted the journey to go any other way.

Brenda Strong

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Bits and pieces flung into the universe, sticking in the sky like cotton balls on a jet black velcro surface.

Bradley Chicho

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Traditionally, when you talk to people who have Parkinson's or Alzheimer's, they'll talk about how they're in five or six studies, and they've been sequenced by each study. That's just fat in the system. Just have a single data set that then you can share. You can make the entire system more efficient.

Anne Wojcicki

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It's been interesting to see how similar audiences in the East and West are, actually, and how it makes you realize that when politicians emphasize the differences between our cultures, it's usually because it benefits them more so than us.

Asghar Farhadi

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I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.

Phillips Brooks

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