Don Marquis Quotes
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
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Racism is everywhere - the older generations in Malaysia still say things like, 'She's darker-skinned; maybe don't marry her,' and it's very judgmental. A lot of girls do try to get fairness cream to lighten their skin, and I'm against all of that.
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Honestly, I just love great performers and people who love what they do.
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Our educational establishment is failing; it is past time for courage, honesty, and action commensurate with the need, particularly here in the United States.
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If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
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My relationship with my body has changed. I used to consider it as a servant who should obey, function, give pleasure. In sickness, you realise that you are not the boss. It is the other way around.
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James Brown is important because he decorates the clock correctly and he's good with lower mathematics. Don't get me wrong – he's good.
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America is the most creative country and the most powerful government in the world.
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Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.
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It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.
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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
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I have to find work wherever it might be hiding.
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I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.
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Don't fight forces, use them.
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The cup of life is not so shallow That we have drained the best That all the wine at once we swallow And lees make all the rest.
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It will fluctuate.
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To say that his conscience was clear would be inaccurate, for he did not have a conscience, but he had what was much better, an alibi...
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'...reality’s always dull, you know...'
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Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.
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Everyone's projecting onto you, or you feel like everyone is judging you. I feel like I'm being judged a lot of the time. You become really self-conscious.
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'Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.
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If tone is granted to be subjected to control, why not line also, which has equal emotional significance? And if line, why not shapes and forms? And if shapes and forms, why not allow elision or emphasis of detail? And if all these things are allowed, what becomes of the record of actuality ?... Sunk without a trace!
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Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.
