Robert Dwayne Womack (Bobby Womack) Quotes
We take things for granted, and because we wake up every day, you start talking about what you're going to do next week. I said, 'Who told you you would be here next week?'
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People take things so seriously.
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What goes for sex goes double for politics.
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I was noticed by a person from a local model agency, and he proposed that I participate in a beauty contest Miss Chelyabinsk.
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We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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I almost took a job in Italy. It was really a great opportunity, but they didn't think I had enough international experience.
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There's monsters in all of us, but there's also vulnerability.
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NBA games are exciting to watch and have global appeal. They are very popular in China. I do watch NBA games on television when I have time.
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I make a lot of soups, and I love stews. My mother's a big foodie. She went to culinary school in New Orleans and has an oyster-artichoke soup recipe that has no cream in it but it tastes so creamy.
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In the early '90s, I was hired to write educational dramas about HIV and AIDS in the shantytowns. I did that for two and a half years, and then I was hired on other films. When 'Tsotsi' presented itself, I thought, 'This is not a world I grew up in, but I've spent a great deal of time writing about it and researching it in my past.'
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French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
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Democracy is about non-arbitrary decisions. Democracy is about spreading decisions; it is not about destroying processes.
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis.
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Pope John XXIII was an amoeba of goodness in a sea of waste, mistakenly believing that the Holy See could or would really change in any fundamental way.He was a tragic figure, for he raised a false hope, cast a brief ray of light that was snuffed out when he died.
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When you are a king, you may make as many ridiculous laws as you like. That is what being a king is all about.
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I want people to believe me when I play a part and they are less apt to if they know a lot about me and have associations about me.
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This has been the new normal since September 11. Everyone knows, but nobody says, that if something happens again, the elite consensus in this country, and the overwhelming consensus of the citizenry, will be to pitch the Bill of Rights out the window and start rounding folks up.
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For quite a while, I didn't receive a higher academic status. I didn't feel any discrimination against me as a woman scientist, but I hadn't produced a lot of science journal articles.
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We take things for granted, and because we wake up every day, you start talking about what you're going to do next week. I said, 'Who told you you would be here next week?'
