Enoch Powell Quotes
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On the day when I was shot, all of my friends' faces were covered, except mine.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.
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I was thinking about it: so many of my stories are about my family life, not about being related to a lot of famous people. That's my grandma, that's my mama, my daddy, my aunt, my uncle, my stepdaddy. I'd probably tell them even if they weren't well known.
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I never was a very good singer.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.
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I really don't have a type. I never had a type. If I could put them all together, it's, like, the most different grouping. So I love when guys are funny. I love guys that are funny and goofy and over the top. And you know, I really like personality.
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Napster has pointed the way for a new direction for music distribution, and we believe it will form the basis of important and exciting new business models for the future of the music industry.
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I'm a professional geologist, an explorationist for oil. That's what I've done in my career, one that's culminated in - at least to this point - playing a part in finding the largest field in the last 40 years anywhere in the world. That's the Bakken field, which I believe will yield 24 billion barrels of oil in the decades to come, maybe more.
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I feel like I just have such the blood and bones of a New Yorker that I can almost imagine better, like, giving up the fight and not being able to afford the city and going out West, keeping a small place here, and then when I'm like 80, coming back here, living on the park and going to the theater.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not.
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People review my comic books. People review every article I write - 'The Atlantic' even publishes them. A great deal of the critique of 'Between the World and Me' was from a feminist perspective. bell hooks pushed back, among others. Some of that has value. Some of it does not. I try my best to separate the wheat from the chaff.
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I love researching, I love interviewing.
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I don't look for anybody to pay for health care for me and my family. That's my responsibility.
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The idea that you can make love and not war really is pretty neat. That thing in Korea, the thing in Israel - that's all over the world. There must be a new way of thinking.
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That metre itself forms an essential part of all true poetry is a principle which not even the assertions of an Aristotle or the pronouncements of a Plato can disestablish.
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I've always just focused on the work, and I've just tried to be honest with the work. If the work speaks to people, fantastic.
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Great drama is all about conflict, and what's a better conflict than Republican-Democrat?
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Of course, everyone would like to play a superhero, but this is by no means me saying I would like to go play Cyclops.
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Either you fight for everybody, or you're really just fighting for yourself and people like you.
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Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions, any bungler can add to the old.
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No battle is worth fighting except the last one.
