Big Sean (Sean Michael Leonard Anderson) Quotes
For me, personally, Detroit is a melting pot for everything. We get the best from the East Coast, West Coast and down South.
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Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.
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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
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The desert Arab found no joy like the joy of voluntarily holding back. He found luxury in abnegation, renunciation, self restraint. He made nakedness of the mind as sensuous as nakedness of the body. He saved his own soul, perhaps, and without danger, but in a hard selfishness.
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I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose.
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I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
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If we really want to cherish religious freedom, people who want to believe that same-sex marriage should take place, they have a right to believe that, and people who want to believe it's inappropriate, we should not demonize those people - if we really believe in religious liberty.
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A Constitution should be short and obscure.
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You parents of the wilful and the wayward! Don't give them up. Don't cast them off. They are not utterly lost. The Shepherd will find his sheep. They were His before they were yours - long before He entrusted them to your care; and you cannot begin to love them as He loves them.
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I read mails throughout the day but answer mails more in the morning and evening.
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It's the 21st century. It's untenable to suggest that women had no significance and no interest and that just because they didn't vote they had no relevance to the course of our history.
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I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.
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God seeks to influence humanity. This is at the heart of the Christmas story. It is the story of light coming into the darkness, of a Savior to show us the way, of light overcoming the darkness, of God's work to save the world.
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Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.
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I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price.
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My whole career is just terror, from beginning to end. That's kind of my thing. A lot of happy accidents happened.
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It makes sense that there is no sense without God.
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Tacked above my desk are photos of artists I admire - Hopper, Sargent, Twain - and postcards from beloved bookstores where I've spent all my time and money - Tattered Cover, Elliot Bay, Harvard Bookstore.
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Of all the nonsense written about love, none is more absurd than the notion that ideal love is selfless. To love is to see myself in you and to wish to celebrate myself with you. What I love is the embodiment of my values in another person. Love is an act of self-assertion, self-expression and a celebration of being alive.
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A teacher's major contribution may pop out anonymously in the life of some ex-student's grandchild. A teacher, finally, has nothing to go on but faith, a student nothing to offer in return but testimony.
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Neither machines, nor the commodities made by them, rise in real value, but all commodities made by machines fall, and fall in proportion to their durability.
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I love cities, and I love city governments in particular. But in politics it would have taken me 8 years from implementing a policy before I would get to see the feedback. With programming I could model the same policies and see the impact immediately. Technology is a far more efficient way to test.
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The film industry is about saying 'no' to people, and inherently you cannot take 'no' for an answer.
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For me, personally, Detroit is a melting pot for everything. We get the best from the East Coast, West Coast and down South.
