Martin Delany Quotes
Every people should be the originators of their own destiny, the projectors of their own schemes, and creators of the events that lead to their destiny -- the consummation of their own desires.
Quotes to Explore
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In America, music is more tightly categorized.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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Leaving all the glamour and air-kissing aside, at the end of the day, fashion is about operations and getting things done. The best way to be successful, therefore, is to learn from the people who do it best.
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.
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The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.
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Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.
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A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.
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I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road.
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I generally wake up at 4:30, have breakfast No. 1, then get to the pool by 5 a.m.
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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If I did a talk show, this would allow me to speak on what's happening at that moment. I can be current, and I get to flex my stand-up muscle but stay at home without doing the traveling.
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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When you had thugs and bullies and killers imposing their will on their own people or other people - if you don't respond to it, it just keeps coming because they're encouraged by their own success.
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I believe that we should be able to marry whom ever we choose. As long as both people are willing... I say go for it!
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I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life.
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Actually the copies of characters is something I don't particularly like to talk about in articles but just for your information, most characters there's only one.
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That's my prescription for a happy marriage - marry someone who doesn't do anything similar to what you do.
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People thought I was funny, so I kind of took entertaining for granted... it was inevitable that I'd start giving little performances.
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I did not give my daughter the kind of childhood anybody would want. The vision of the divided loyalty between a mother and father who don't live together and don't share in decisions is a great depravation for children.
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Life's too short to not be around nice people.
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Every people should be the originators of their own destiny, the projectors of their own schemes, and creators of the events that lead to their destiny -- the consummation of their own desires.
