Charles Kingsley Quotes
For men must work, and women must weep,And there's little to earn, and many to keep,Though the harbor bar be moaning.
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
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It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.
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When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
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The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
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You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one.
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I do think that 'Pretty Little Liars' has raised the bar in how social media can tie into the fan base watching the show.
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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.
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I bring spiritual books with me while travelling. I like books about thoughts and how you see the world.
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It's funny, I was talking to somebody who writes for a cop show, and he was saying how they aren't allowed to acknowledge Christmas, Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day, just because it has to be able to play forever.
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There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.
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I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.
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The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.
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I have ambitions to do a Broadway record one of these days and get in the studio with like, a real orchestra. I'm a big musical theatre geek.
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I don't know that Islam has ever been a subject of anything that I've written. I think Muslims have often been, but those are two very different things.
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I guess I'd be put in the ID politics camp. But there is really nothing in the world-view of, say, Bernie Sanders I actually disagree with. I'd like a guaranteed income, single-payer health care, a stronger safety net, etc. The problem is the temptation to paper over historically fraught issues to achieve that is tempting.
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Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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I used to play the trombone and the trumpet, which I still have, but I haven't picked up for a long time.
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I won't be training at 60 years old, because I want to do something else in my life.
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Where the material ends, art begins.
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I am not interested in genres. I am interested in doing the best work I can in whatever medium.
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When I was a teenager, black pride became newly popular again. Suddenly a lot of black people were wearing the fake kente cloth and red black and green and Bob Marley. That was sort of my window into finding my own identity as a black person.
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Shakespeare speaks for the human heart but Dickens speaks for the social man and for injustices.
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For men must work, and women must weep,And there's little to earn, and many to keep,Though the harbor bar be moaning.
