Paul Robeson Quotes

Could I say that the reason that I am here today, you know, from the mouth of the State Department itself, is: I should not be allowed to travel because I have struggled for years for the independence of the colonial peoples of Africa.

Paul Robeson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 9, 1898 - January 23, 1976

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I have seen the Raiders develop into what they are today.

Jim Otto

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Twenty-seven years incarcerated, his jailer became his best friend. So if you need an example on how we should act and how we should be, then Nelson Mandela is the man to follow.

Jim Brown

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I've had enough rejection for 33 years. I don't need more.

Michael Cimino

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I truly believe that as a novelist, you cannot adequately describe the weather in England - the light, the dampness, the bitterness, the summer softness, and so on - without having experienced it.

Stephanie Laurens

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My fan base is really, really young. They're the youngest demographic that you can track on YouTube: 13- to 17-year-old females. But the fan mail that I get in my P.O. box, they're all from moms and from kids who are two years old, three years old, four years old.

Rosanna Pansino

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I was nearly struck by lightning on an excavation in Turkey.

Mary Beard

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I collect toys.

Mika

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I go to this gym full of stunt men. There aren't any TVs or treadmills there. This is a spit-and-sawdust kind of place. It has a lot of great training aids - trampolines and bags and every weapon ever invented to do harm to a human being. If you want to know how to throw a knife, it's great.

Jason Statham

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If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.

Brian Eno

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You get quick money, it's beautiful, there's sunshine, but at the end of the day, you find out it's all a masquerade, baby. It's not what it seems.

Wyclef Jean

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I want to be remembered as the person who helped us restore faith in ourselves.

Wilma Mankiller

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Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.

Phil Crosby

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