Haile Selassie Quotes
Misguided people sometimes create misguided ideas. Some of my ancestors were Oromo. How can I colonize myself?
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.
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Whenever you feel down, you can check on Twitter and feel better about yourself, because it's only people who like you.
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
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We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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It's very little trouble for me to accommodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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The plastic bottle we're throwing away every day still stays there. And if we show that to people, then we can also promote some behavioral change.
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Story and plot, not historical facts, are the engine of a novel, but I was committed to working through the grain of actual history and coming to something, an overall effect, which approximated truth.
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All my Dominican friends live in an area called Los Venaga. Their houses are shacks. They'd invite us over to dinner, and we'd sit in plastic chairs on the dirt inside a house.
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I believe it's important that we use names of endearment that reflect a special feeling for the individual involved.
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I love music. I think it's a higher art form, in a way, than movies. You know, a film you see once, maybe twice. A song will follow you forever. It's a magical thing.
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If you make it sound too much like a synth, it will just sound like a guitar part played on a synth.
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My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her that the next year I wouldn't work as much. But then I got in trouble with the IRS, and I had to continue working just as much to pay the government. So she said I lied, which is something I never did.
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What can you do if they have slapped you with a legal notice? You have to reply. For all you know, they have taken you to jail or something.
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Playing bass for Metallica is like having free speech in Cuba.
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London is a small place, and it is very incestuous. People know where you live. Everybody is sort of on top of each other.
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Misguided people sometimes create misguided ideas. Some of my ancestors were Oromo. How can I colonize myself?
