Burgess Owens Quotes

Dubois was the first black American to graduate from Harvard. He was accepted within the northern white intellectual circles as one of the 'best of his race.' As an avowed socialist, he was the only black member of the original 19 wealthy socialist founders of the NAACP.

Burgess Owens

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BestBlackAmericanWhiteRace

If you're reissuing something, it's important to have demos and everything else from that time that wasn't used.

Jim James

TimeYouImportantEverythingUsed

Where humanity is going to find itself in, say, 20, 30, 40, or 50 years would be very difficult to predict, I think. There are moments, of course, when you think that it's going from bad to worse, but there are other moments when you think that human efforts are really flowering into something really fantastic.

John Hurt

ThinkMomentsHumanityYouBadFind

I'm not good at being lionized, and when I'm in 'Grateful Dead'-type situations, that happens.

Robert Hunter

GoodGratefulBeingHappens

People often tell me how much they love the digital skies that we obviously painted for 'War Horse.' Well, there's not a single sky that we put in through special effects. The skies you see in the movie are the skies that we experienced - but it was definitely challenging at times.

Steven Spielberg

LoveSkyWarPeopleMeHorse

It's hard to say what drives a three year-old, but I think I had a sense that nature was my solace, and nature was a place in which there was beauty, in which there was order.

Story Musgrave

NatureBeautyThinkPlaceThreeSay

Moving gave me confidence. I was really reclusive when I first moved. I stayed home a lot or went to shows alone. But by the second semester of my freshman year, I started making friends.

Soccer Mommy

ConfidenceHomeAloneMeMoving

People like to know you're listening, and something as simple as a clarification question shows not only that you are listening but that you also care about what they're saying. You'll be surprised how much respect and appreciation you gain just by asking good questions.

Travis Bradberry

GoodRespectSimpleAppreciationYou

I do believe in an afterlife. I try to be at one with people and try to love life as much as I can.

Julia Sawalha

LifeLovePeopleBelieveI CanTry

I've always been able to work as an actor and support my family and did great jobs, and more often than not, I got to turn down jobs that I didn't really want to do for various reasons or refuse to work with people I didn't like - and there are quite a few.

Christoph Waltz

WorkFamilyGreatSupportPeople

I want to be interested in the music I make until I die. That's more important to me than the size of my audience.

Arca

MusicMeDieImportantWantSize

A lot of people have told me, 'You're not this and so can't play that,' and I can't tell you the amount of times I've been told I'm not sexy. I just go: 'I'm a lot of things. Just because I don't wear my sexiness overtly doesn't mean that I can't become that girl for a role.

Anne Hathaway

GirlPeopleMeSexyYouPlay

I still have in my memory, almost agonizing impressions of a serious illness which I had when I was about eight years old. Those about me called it scarlet fever, and its very name seemed to have a diabolical quality.

Pierre Loti

QualityMemoryMeNameSeriousOld

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