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Edmonia Lewis Quotes

My features I take from my father, but my spirit, my industry and perseverance I get from my Indian mother.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: sculptor
Nationality: american
Birth: July 4, 1844 - September 17, 1907

Topics

Perseverance Father Mother Spirit

I'm a street player, and all of my influences come from bands that I was listening to at the time when I was growing up. I was very impressed with guys like Mitch Mitchell. I liked rock and roll drummers, and I loved rhythm and blues guys like Clyde Stubblefield with James Brown. Man, that band blew me away all of the time.

Time Man Me Growing Up Listening

Looking at the numbers, the transatlantic slave trade matches the Holocaust in horror - maybe even without counting subsidiary effects like internal strife and deaths inflected on the continent, death during transport, death during ownership, collapse of African economies, and such.

Jens Martin Skibsted

Death Looking Ownership Holocaust

I think people have this idea that I just lived in my place in England and never left. During 'Looking,' I was in America for four years. I've got a green card. I spend half my time there. It doesn't feel like an alien world at all.

Time People Green World Looking

Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.

Nature Mountain Bald Full Bare Tops

I think I'm one of the hardest-training fighters in the world.

World Think I Think Fighters

The Democratic Party and DNC have to be a very conspicuous face of the opposition to Donald Trump and all his divisiveness. At the same time, we have to communicate our, I think, positive and inclusive message to everyone.

Positive Time Face Think Party Same

I just keep working on things I like, and hope for the best. I hope people enjoy them.

Michael Shannon

Hope Best People Enjoy Things Keep

In 1987, I had no idea who Steven Isserlis was. We met at the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, South Carolina. It was originally just an Italian summer festival, but for the past 14 years, there's also been a spring festival in America.

Past Spring America Summer Years

I'm following the path that was destined for me.

Bozoma Saint John

Path Me Destined Following

Being fashionable does not mean you have to drain your bank account.

You Mean Bank Being Your Drain

What I loved about 'The 40 Year-Old Virgin,' the title is the easy sell, but when you see the movie, the comedy is more free-form and more relatable.

Loved Comedy Easy You More See

The issue of fracking is a stick in the hornet's nest.

Nest Stick Issue

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