“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.”
— Martha Graham
Author: Martha Graham
Category: time
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“Queer Eye for the Straight Guy is a form of service journalism. To be successful, I think it has to be a combination of a good story, it has to be funny, and it also needs to be packed with useful information.”
— Ted Allen
Author: Ted Allen
Category: funny
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“France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.”
— Charles Baudelaire
Author: Charles Baudelaire
Category: poetry
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“As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching.”
— Carter G. Woodson
Author: Carter G. Woodson
Category: change
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“I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.”
— V. S. Naipaul
Author: V. S. Naipaul
Category: business
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