Offset (Kiari Kendrell Cephus) Quotes
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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The real Malala is gone somewhere, and I can't find her.
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No one remembers who came in second.
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I don't want to collect Indian art, though pots and beadwork and blankets made by Indians remain the most beautiful art objects in the American West, in my opinion.
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After school, my sister and I helped our mom in the garden. We grew potatoes, cucumbers, tomatoes - not for fun, but to eat.
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The transition between life in red-state America and life in the Arab capital was at times overwhelming because of the traditional segregation of men and women in many public and private settings.
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Yeah, about sixteen to twenty weeks a year. For example, we can do America in six or seven weeks. You can do Europe in three weeks; England in two weeks. South America you could do in three weeks; Asia you could do in three weeks.
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I read autobiographies because there is too much fiction in my life.
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There are secrets at the heart of every story; there is something that must be uncovered or discovered, both by the reader and by the characters.
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When I exercise, I need to connect to myself and see how I'm feeling at the moment because my mood is constantly changing.
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That's what George wrote! He wrote it. Why change it? There was this European company that I was speaking about awhile ago - course, didn't nobody know what Porgy was.
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It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.
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The twentieth century had produced a literature in Ireland that kept a tense distance from the sources of faith - and for good reason. Irish writing had suffered a terrible censorship in the twentieth century.
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I have a zero tolerance for sanctimonious morons who try to scare people.
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As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.
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If I started being braggy, my family would be like, 'Shut up, Maisie! Who cares? Get off the sofa.'
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How is it that in Ireland, where they never had any knowledge of God but, always, until now, cherished idols and unclean things, they are lately become a people of the Lord, and are called children of God; the sons of. the Irish and the daughters of the chieftains are to be seen as monks and virgins of Christ.
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Physically plain people are perfectly able to see physical beauty in others, while people who are morally maimed are blind to goodness and decency. They honestly think it doesn't exist.Oh, they know it exists all right. They just never know which people have it.
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Responsibility is something higher than my family, my country, my firm, my success. Responsibility to the order of Being, where, and only where, they will be properly judged.
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I am telling you what I know—words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them.
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You've got to know what you put in your body. That's it.
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Whoever came up first with that saying a picture is worth a thousand words didn't understand the first thing about either one.
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President Obama's decision not to go to Congress for help in establishing reasonable standards for the continued detention of Guantanamo detainees is a failure of leadership in the project of putting American law on a sound basis for a long-term confrontation with terrorism. It is bad for the country, for national security, and for civil liberties.
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My brothers kept me relevant. They got my back 100%. After all the times I've been incarcerated, they've always had my back.
