Dennis Banks Quotes
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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When you promise something, you must fulfill it.
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We must continue research into new forms of energy and into more efficient use of existing energy sources.
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There is one system of justice, demanding that all be held accountable when laws are broken.
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One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.
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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
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I am trying my best to strike a balance. How many hours a day can I work? I work for 12-15 hours a day; it gets very strenuous. I balance between Telugu, Tamil, and Hindi.
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Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.
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Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.
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No one pays me to be nice.
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
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All I ever wanted to do is make music.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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I'm not a wildly gifted person; I don't play an instrument or speak another language or have great accomplishments in another field, as many writers do. But writing feels natural to me; the act of it seems to free up my unconscious, so that sometimes I feel that I have access to more ideas and information than my conscious mind could think up.
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I can't go on Tinder; I'll get in trouble.
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I'm on this road for the rest of my life.
