Bessie Head Quotes
I might really have gone round the bend. I mean people who get visions and see a gigantic light descend on them from the sky can't be all there but if so I feel mighty happy. If one is happy and cracked it's much better than being unhappy and sane.
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Whatever good or bad is said by former cricketers is considered gospel. Our media should not blow out of proportion the opinion of former cricketers.
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The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.
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Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
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I'm not interested in what other people are doing. That's their business.
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Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room with a private phone line, a place to hang out with friends, and for it to be way-cool and funky.' Ask parents the same question, and 'a locked door that opens on their 21st birthday' might top the list!
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It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game.
Garry Kasparov
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You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.
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Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.
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Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free... Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot win equality unless they win freedom.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.
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When you go all over the world for work, your dream vacation is your bedroom.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.
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And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
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I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.
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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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We - we spend a lot of time, scholarly time, thinking about love and sex, but very little about the - the kind of joy that can take over a crowd of people or a group of people, in festivity, in ecstatic ritual of some kind, in celebration.
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Liz Benedict, a teacher of mine at Iowa, is the person who introduced me to James Salter's work.
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I think we should be looking at the defense and seeing where we can actually be more efficient because I think that, you know, sometimes during the contracting process, we lose some efficiencies in that regard.
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New Jersey was actually a very cold place. There was such an intense concentration of wealth, and such a low concentration of any actual human happiness. A lot of people seem to be similar to the kid in school, which is doing a lot of things with no direct consequence to their joy, or their lives.
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Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art.
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Everybody knows things are not the same. The people running the TV end of a major vertically integrated company know how much money a successful show can make.
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I might really have gone round the bend. I mean people who get visions and see a gigantic light descend on them from the sky can't be all there but if so I feel mighty happy. If one is happy and cracked it's much better than being unhappy and sane.
