Quotes 141 till 160 of 305.
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It was easier to know it than to explain why I know it. If you were asked to prove that two and two made four, you might find some difficulty, and yet you are quite sure of the fact.
Source: A Study in Scarlet (1887) -
It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man-not a color.
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It's a struggle but that's why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
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It's very difficult for designers today. How can someone produce so many shows? Now the minimum is four a year.
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James Brown was one of the first artists who found four bars that he liked and played them the entire way through, and then he just added to it vocally.
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Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason - you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions.
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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.
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Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.
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Life in LA is not lying in the sun for months. It is having a 4pm meeting and leaving at noon to sit in traffic for four hours. It's not glam.
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Like a beautiful flower full of color, but without scent, are the fine but fruitless words of him who does not act accordingly.
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Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.
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Mama never told me, 'Bess, you did good.' She wanted the best for us and she was an incredible administrator. She ran those three kids, that house, the whole bit. But if I looked fine, she'd find something wrong - the color, the hem... I used to tell her, 'Mama, don't worry when you're not with me, because you're with me.'
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Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three elements,- carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen; animals of one of four elements, nitrogen being added to the other three.
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Mathematicians aren't satisfied because they know there are no solutions up to four million or four billion, they really want to know that there are no solutions up to infinity.
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Men and women are limited not by the place of their birth, not by the color of their skin, but by the size of their hope.
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Men knew that if they devirginized a woman, they could end up dead within twenty-four hours. These controls have been removed.
Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992) -
Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.
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Miami Beach - that's where I grew up, in a middle-class Jewish family led by my maternal grandfather. Me, my great-grandmother - a Holocaust survivor, who was my roommate - my grandparents, my mom and her brother all shared a four-bedroom house.
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