Chief Joseph Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
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Music will always be my greatest passion.
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I'm really about my family and really proud of being a Carter.
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I literally don't think about Oscar.
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I dyed my hair pink when I was fifteen.
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Life is a great university for the unfolding of the mind, for developing character. In choosing our life work, when we are free to choose, we should remember this, and choose that which will call the biggest man or woman out of us and not that from which we can coin the most dollars.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.
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To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form – and local human passions and conditions and standards – are depicted as native to other worlds and universes.
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My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.
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Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
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I used to say that I didn't want anything to do with e-mail. It seemed really impersonal, complicated and weird. I had no idea what an amazing way it is to reach people.
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I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script.
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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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Our present will become the past of other men and women. We depend on them to remember it with the complexity with which it was suffered. As others, once, depended on us.
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In India, you see the way they embrace color in the culture - it's very celebratory of the existence of color. There's no rule of what color belongs together or doesn't belong together. They're not precious about it. It's very full-on.
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Literature - Eastern and Western - abounds with stories, myths, legends about the search for youth, for eternal life.
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It was extremely hard going from being a parent of one to a parent of three, because now all these instant decisions have to be made about how you balance out the time and attention between them.
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A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning.
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We recognize the negro as God and God's Book and God's Laws, in nature, tell us to recognize him. Our inferior, fitted expressly for servitude.
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I've always been fascinated by mythology or, in modern parlance, by X-Men or vampires.
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I came out when I was 17 - coming out in middle or high school is one of the most difficult things that anyone could experience. I wouldn't wish it on my enemies.
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I only ask of the government to be treated as all other men are treated.
