Fred Hampton Quotes
I went down to the prison in Menard, thinking we were the vanguard, but down there, I got down on my knees and listened and learned from the people.
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It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do.
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From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad or poignant, and it may not make me laugh a bit. But I don't mind inventing a portrait that allows others to laugh if that's what they want to do.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
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Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
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I want to thank the pioneering women who years ago opened the doors of politics in Costa Rica. My government will be open to all Costa Ricans of good faith.
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My heart is in independent film-making. For me, it's where the fun, gritty storytelling is being told.
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I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.
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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
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I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer.
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We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.
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I have an hourglass shape, and I think it's important to understand your body type and your personality type. Then make whatever is on trend and in fashion work for you.
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I sat out a few years because I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do next. So many things were changing in music and in culture, so it seemed like a good time to step back.
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Look at someone like Steve Jobs. His look wasn't very special - black turtleneck and jeans - but he had style. He looked the same, and you knew it was him when you saw him. Plus, he was a very smart person, which is also very attractive. His style was simple, not distracting, and very strong.
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I'm thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do.
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I'm a piece of work, man. I will do what I want, at all times, always. Nobody's going to persuade me one way or another. I can't be persuaded. I take criticism, I listen, I analyze, but at the end of the day, I make the decisions. Because that's the way I started, and that's the way I'm going to finish.
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And the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats,None knew so well as I:For he who lives more lives than oneMore deaths than one must die.
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And old affront will stir the heart Through years of rankling pain.
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The whole Obama phenomenon brings up memories from my distant past: the good-looking guy who talks real good, whose line you don't buy immediately but whose charm is so dazzling that he gradually convinces you that this time it will be different.
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I went down to the prison in Menard, thinking we were the vanguard, but down there, I got down on my knees and listened and learned from the people.
