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Solomon Northup Quotes

There have been hours in my unhappy life, many of them, when the contemplation of death as the end of earthly sorrow - of the grave as a resting place for the tired and worn out body - has been pleasant to dwell upon.

Solomon Northup

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: July 10, 1808 - 1863

Topics

Life Death Tired End Unhappy Body

My mom was extremely supportive of me, but it could err on the side of... I mean, there's supportive, and then there's just full-on over-hovering.

Megan Mullally

Me Mom Mean Side Just Supportive

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

Maya Angelou

Life Great Myself Dance Song Think

A big part of my upbringing was being with an instrument and kind of figuring myself out through music. So I feel a strong desire in any way that I can to help do that for other kids.

Andy Grammer

Music Myself Strong Feel Help I Can

Kristen Bell is rare as an actress, because she's the type of actor who jumps out of a plane without a parachute - from a totally fearless place, which is really refreshing and inspiring.

Steve Antin

Fearless Place Actor She Refreshing

I think students should know something about religion as a historical phenomenon, in the same way that they should know something about socialism and humanism and the other great ideas that have shaped political philosophies and therefore the course of human events.

Steven Pinker

Great Religion Ideas Socialism Think

Technique is everything and we play a contact sport.

Troy Vincent

Play Everything Contact Technique

I've been extremely happy and fortunate in terms of what I've achieved and the experiences I've been given.

Toni Collette

Happy Experiences Fortunate Been

When I started out, there were many different companies... you could leave and go to a different territory, and there were so many different styles. What we have now is WWE has survived the test of time, and all the other companies have fallen off the face of the earth.

Rob Van Dam

Time Face You Earth Go Test

Thankfully, Australia has emerged from its inauspicious colonial beginnings to become a proud nation, a nation that overcame those primeval prejudices.

Rupert Murdoch

Proud Australia Become Nation Those

Pop music is created by repression - and then the system takes it and makes even more money with it!

Michel Gondry

Music Money More System Pop Even

Where story comes from, I don't know. I know that I become obsessed with something. An idea, an image, a person, the way a person talks. And then something starts happening that I can't explain, and it has a lot to do with language.

Dorothy Allison

Story Language Person Know Become

I think it's one thing to be able to dance, and it's another thing to learn all the wonderful moments of dance because in my day... it was the moving of dance.

Debbie Reynolds

Day Dance Moving Think Learn Able