O. T. Fagbenle Quotes
I try to encourage myself to act in a way that supports gender equality, and I call that feminist. Whatever word people want to use to call that, I'm not really attached to a label.
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Like brown rice, black rice is unmilled, and it is the dark outer husk that makes it so nutty and chewy. It's also why it takes longer to cook than many other rices.
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It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.
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I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.
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Politics is not an exact science.
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.
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I think who you are in school really sticks with you.
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I don't drink coffee.
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I believe that everything has a shelf life.
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When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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I'm really close to my family, and we talk through things.
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I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs.
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I don't eat any red meat.
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I love walks, hiking, exploring and being on the beach.
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My mother named me after her favorite actor, Joel McCrea, and dressed and presented me as her avatar. I'm sure she wanted to be a performer, but when that was impossible, I was her next best shot.
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Bureaucracy has murdered people in the greater New Orleans area and bureaucracy needs to stand trial before Congress today. So I'm asking Congress, please investigate this now. Take whatever idiot they have at the top of whatever agency, give me a better idiot. Give me a caring idiot. Give me a sensitive idiot. Just don't give me the same idiot.
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My mother was harsh and constantly told me I had jug ears and heaven knows what else. But she was devoted and a hard worker.
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Whenever there's a bad law, it can be repealed or nullified.
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What needs to be discharged is the intolerable tenderness of the past, the past gone and grieved over and never made sense of. Music ransoms us from the past, declares an amnesty, brackets and sets aside the old puzzles. Sing a new song. Start a new life, get a girl, look into her shadowy eyes, smile.
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I try to encourage myself to act in a way that supports gender equality, and I call that feminist. Whatever word people want to use to call that, I'm not really attached to a label.
