Diogenes Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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Islam means peace.
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Missing from much of the public debate is discussion of the simple fact that lurking behind every terroristic act is a specific political antecedent. That does not justify either the perpetrator or his political cause. Nonetheless, the fact is that almost all terrorist activity originates from some political conflict and is sustained by it as well.
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We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it. And to take good care of it, we have to know it. And to know it and to be willing to take care of it, we have to love it.
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What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be.
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Being American and being an outsider at the same time, it's a perspective I often bring to a character.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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Do we really want Washington administrators coming between us and our doctors?
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There are female artists I can look at that I find more in common with than the male artists, because they're blending the pop, dance and theatricality... but currently there aren't a lot of guys who go there.
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I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
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The stigma that was once attached to things society deemed unhealthy served the purpose of making them undesirable. With the stigma gone, many people see little reason not to do whatever feels good at the moment.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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You eventually get used to looking at girls picking their leotards out of their bums and that sort of stuff.
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There is no age limit on the enjoyment of sex. It keeps getting better.
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You're either with me or you're not. And if you're not, you're out.
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Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
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I started Save the Libraries in 2010 by hosting a big fundraiser in my city library of DeKalb County in Atlanta. Through that, I learned that even with fundraisers, libraries often don't make money - they just barely break even.
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I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket.
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.
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I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.
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Hip-hop is rich in musical allusion. It takes something that already existed, respects it, and reuses it.
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True prayer is asking God what He wants.
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One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings.
