Martin Delany Quotes
We must make an issue, create an event, and establish a national position for ourselves: and never may expect to be respected as men and women, until we have undertaken some fearless, bold, and adventurous deeds of daring . . .
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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I love a good Slash guitar riff. It's sexy!
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It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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I don't really feel McCain. It ain't just because Barack is black; he can make change. Just like Bush equals recession, Barack equals progression.
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Brittany Murphy... who knows if she's going to be around. Kirsten Dunst, I think she's really boring. Reese Witherspoon? She can open a movie.
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My grandmother's first husband was a spiritualist medium. What fascinates me about that is the balance between conviction and sincerity and trickery, which is also something that novelists are very familiar with.
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If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks.
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I don't have a definition for depression. I'm productive, and that's not a sign of depression, right? And I don't have weeks where I don't leave my bed. It seems like depressed people have those.
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There's such a fan base for 'Dark Shadows'. I remember watching the show as a kid, but I wasn't an ardent fan. I didn't run home from school to watch it.
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On my first day at Yale Law School, there were posters in the hallways announcing an event with Tony Blair, the former British prime minister. I couldn't believe it: Tony Blair was speaking to a room of a few dozen students? If he came to Ohio State, he would have filled an auditorium of a thousand people.
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Economically, we are, to some significant degree, interdependent with Chinese well-being. That is a great asset.
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It's weird how people were always asking us, 'Are you real? Are you joking?' That seems like something Americans care about a lot. You can't answer the question 'Are you real?' If we're anything, we're documentary fiction.
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Head lice have their own animal-rights group, or may as well. The National Pediculosis Association doesn't exactly advocate letting lice live with dignity, but it does oppose pediculicidal treatments.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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We should involve the whole world in the handling of this refugee crisis.
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I spend far too much time on eBay buying lamps and upholstery remnants.
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A house divided against itself cannot stand.
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Fashion choices are never arbitrary. Even if you say you don't care, that's a decision. There's something you're trying to say.
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Food is my thing, I do not smoke or drink, so food is my vice.
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We must make an issue, create an event, and establish a national position for ourselves: and never may expect to be respected as men and women, until we have undertaken some fearless, bold, and adventurous deeds of daring . . .
