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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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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I once worked as a tour guide in the Costa del Sol of Spain.
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There are no great scripts - just great films.
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I've always been more of a nerdy, academic type. I loved 'Star Wars' growing up. I have three older brothers, so they were a big influence on me. We loved 'Danger Mouse,' and we love 'Monty Python'. We loved any kind of British comedy and 'Wallace and Gromit' and all of that stuff.
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I was either told or I realised on my own terms that if you're going to be star-struck with the people you're working with, you're not going to work very well.
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Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one.
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Whenever you move, I think you lose your history.
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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.
