Bessie Head Quotes
I am building a stairway to the stars. I have the authority to take the whole of mankind up there with me. That is why I write.
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My mother is the sort of a person who has no boundaries and no filter. She also has a big ego, but it's a very unique one. And I grew up with lots of artists in an environment where conformity and the norm were totally not what anybody was after.
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My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.
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If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
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I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.
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Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984.
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War triggers unforeseeable military dynamics and sets off massive political shocks, creating new problems as well as new opportunities.
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I believe in the 'Wal-Mart' school of business. The less people pay, the more they enjoy it.
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That's what I've wanted to do my whole life, just act. When I was younger, I loved to entertain people. I always used to make up dance routines, do little plays. I love to perform, basically.
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I think Hispanic community - the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family and patriotism. Do you know the rate of military enlistment among Hispanics is higher than any demographic in this country? And they are also hard work and responsibility.
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
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I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine.
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I think that anything that has privileges have responsibility and all people that is clear about their responsibility has compromise.
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Making films. It gave me a voice. Legitimately saved me.
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Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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Evil report carries further than any applause.
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My goal is I want to create the 20-20-20 club: 20 sacks, 20 tackles for loss, 20 batted balls.
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I think that intelligence is such a narrow branch of the tree of life - this branch of primates we call humans. No other animal, by our definition, can be considered intelligent. So intelligence can't be all that important for survival, because there are so many animals that don't have what we call intelligence, and they're surviving just fine.
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Some readers and commentators really want to scrape your insides out to make sense of your work. Others say, there's the work, it speaks for itself. Personally, I fall somewhere in the middle.
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I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.
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It's bad to wake up and see a large cat in mid-leap from the rough vicinity of the ceiling.
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I personally don't do any hard drugs, because they get in the way of me getting to my base issues, and I'd rather get rid of the excess baggage than find a way to shove it deeper in the closet.
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I am building a stairway to the stars. I have the authority to take the whole of mankind up there with me. That is why I write.
