Big Sean (Sean Michael Leonard Anderson) Quotes

Kids that I went to school with didn't know how to interact with black people like that. There were only, like, three or four black kids in the class.

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• I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor.

  

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• In life, so many things are taken for granted, but one thing I can honestly say is that I took every day, enjoyed the game of putting on that uniform and playing the great game of baseball.

  

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• There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.

  

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• There are clearly many good politicians who are guided by religious belief, so the mix can work. But there's a line to be drawn. It would be hugely dangerous for a country's laws to be set by the scriptures, and particularly those of the expansionist religions.

  

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• I am from Karnal, India.

  

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• I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?

  

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• I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.

  

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• There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.

  

  Wayne Dyer
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• Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.

  

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• Japan learned from the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that the tragedy wrought by nuclear weapons must never be repeated and that humanity and nuclear weapons cannot coexist.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
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• Before I was ever a poet, my father was writing poems about me, so it was a turning of the tables when I became a poet and started answering, speaking back to his poems in ways that I had not before.

  

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• Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
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• When it's good, cinema can be one of the most important things in a person's life. A film can be a catalyst for change. You witness this and it is an incredibly spiritual experience that I'd never lived before; well, maybe only in a football match.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
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• I can imagine that the Iraqis undertake the destruction out of fear. If they had denied it, if they had said no, that certainly would have played into the hands of those that would like to take armed action immediately. I have no illusions in that regard.

  

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• If you consistently write 'The sun set' rather than 'The sun sank slowly in the bright western sky,' your story will move three times as fast. Of course, there are times you want the longer version for atmosphere - but not many. Wordiness not only kills pace; it bores readers.

  

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• I'm just being normal. A normal woman. Well, I don't know what a normal woman is, but I'm a woman and I'm Yoko and I've never changed that.

  

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• I was forbidden to talk to my fellow hostages.

  

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• It's a dream when some people think that once you give your life to God, all of a sudden things are perfect. That's not the case. We live in a world that's broken, where there's disease, where people are selfish. The foundation of your faith helps you know how to put that in proper perspective.

  

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• As a high-school drop-out, I knew I wanted to write, but I wasn't overly confident that I was going to be writing anything serious. I was happy enough with the idea that I could be a penny-a-word guy and survive.

  

  Daniel Woodrell
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• In Harlem, I got all my black friends. But when I go downtown, I got black, white, Asian, Indian friends. There's no borders, no barriers.

  

  ASAP Rocky
  • Friends
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• There's times when I'm cleaning the kitchen, and while I'm doing that, I'm singing and air guitaring with a broom to 'You Should Be Dancing.'

  

  Corey Taylor Stone Sour
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• I've always had a healthy disregard for authority - it allows me to do my job as a portrait photographer and not as someone who is playing the power game.

  

  Platon Antoniou
  • Job
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• Kids that I went to school with didn't know how to interact with black people like that. There were only, like, three or four black kids in the class.

  

  Big Sean
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  • Kids