Nelson Algren Quotes
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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
Hannah Arendt -
I'm comfortably asocial - a hermit in the middle of a large city, a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty and drive.
Octavia E. Butler -
I liked 'Diff'rent Strokes' up until about the last three or four years. I was bored.
Gary Coleman -
Orwell wasn't right about where society was in 1984. We haven't turned into that sort of surveillance society. But that may be, at least in small part, because of his book. The notion that ubiquitous surveillance and state manipulation of the media is evil is deeply engrained in us.
Ramez Naam -
My life is not that glamorous. I actually live a pretty simple life, really. I just work. I don't have time to do all these glamorous things. I just do my thing, just work.
Olga Kurylenko -
It's always the first 10,000 SoundCloud listens; that was definitely a big moment, seeing the online stuff grow and crowds grow.
Flume
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Everything I do today is because of what I did when I was 14.
Nadia Comaneci -
I believe in the Constitution - and I believe in common sense.
Taylor Sheridan -
The best way to start doing something is to start doing something.
Vernon Howard -
During the 19th-century struggle for women's rights in America, many saw a competition between rights for black people and those for women.
Karen DeCrow -
The cause of suffering is that the unbounded Self is overshadowed by the world.
Patanjali -
I knew being accepted was going to be hard, but I knew I was involved in a situation that was going to bring opportunities to other blacks.
Larry Doby
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Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
Galileo Galilei -
I want to be successful, and I want to do good, but I also want to be myself.
Mackenzie Foy -
I do not tweeze my eyebrows. I've been letting them grow out for years. I try to fill them in wherever nature has abandoned me.
Olivia Wilde -
I'm not aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize!
Omar Bongo -
All his life he had lived by the law. Often his job had been to stop acts of revenge....And now revenge was all that life had left for him.
Vernor Vinge -
If I find the constitution being misused, I shall be the first to burn it.
Babasaheb
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I wouldLove you ten years before the Flood,And you should, if you please, refuseTill the conversion of the Jews.My vegetable love should growVaster than empires and more slow.
Andrew Marvell -
If it can't be … reused, repaired … then it should be … redesigned or removed from production.
Pete Seeger -
How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.
Lee Trevino -
It makes a lot more sense for us to be investing in jobs and education rather than jails and incarceration.
Bernie Sanders -
A writer who knows what he is doing isn't doing very much.
Nelson Algren