Haile Selassie Quotes
The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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The Heat gave me an opportunity when nobody else wanted to.
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I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.
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In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
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I believe in the power of intention to change the landscape of our society - and it is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action. Jamey Rodemeyer's life changed mine.
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The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
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I know career motivation and encouragement up the ladder of success have their place in the world. But I don't want them anywhere near my spirituality.
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For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.
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Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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I don't know, a lot of people go crazy about 'Breaking Bad,' but I don't like the soap opera aspect of it and only following one character. I like the context to all of it, all the pieces, like 'The Wire.' It's more about the state of things; it's not about the narrative of a person.
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Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.
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With every film, I try and give the audiences a little more than the previous film in terms of comedy, action, drama and so on.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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Every single one of the guys that I've written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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I'm evangelical.
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.
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Your subconscious mind is trying to help you all the time. That's why I keep a journal - not for chatter but for mostly the images that flow into the mind or little ideas. I keep a running journal, and I have all of my life, so it's like your gold mine when you start writing.
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Memory is the seamstress, and a capricious one at that. Memory runs her needle in and out, up and down, hither and thither. We know not what comes next, or what follows after. Thus, the most ordinary movement in the world, such as sitting down at a table and pulling the inkstand towards one, may agitate a thousand odd, disconnected fragments, now bright, now dim, hanging and bobbing and dipping and flaunting, like the underlinen of a family of fourteen on a line in a gale of wind.
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Every human perfection is allied to a defect into which it threatens to pass, but it is also true that every defect is allied to a perfection.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
