Rafael dos Anjos Quotes
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I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in 'We, the people.'
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Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, but I realized it was very useful.
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The first thing my writing ever earned me wasn't an advance on a book; it wasn't a fee for an article or anything like that. It was, in fact, a residency at Hedgebrook Farm.
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There's nothing more fun to me than new characters and a new world.
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I have to be able to rap. I don't have the look. I don't have the typical slim-dude, fancy-clothes look. That's not me. I have to be able to rap - there is no other choice, or else I get eaten alive.
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I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.
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If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.
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I have to say, sushi freaks me out more than almost anything.
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I've gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home.
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It's not so easy to forgive.
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I like to put a stake in people, because I know people helped me.
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If everything gets too serious for me on the album, I get kinda bored. I've got to have some kind of jovial things in there.
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I don't do a film unless it has a sword in it. And if it doesn't have a sword in it, I insist that they have one in the same room to keep me comfortable.
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It would be hypocritical of me to use being female in some ways, and diss being female in other ways. It's part of the programme.
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The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.
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I don't feel like sitting around doing nothing would benefit me.
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I think the legacy is really the company that we built. That's what makes me happy. I'm a very simple person, so that's all I really need.
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I don't like it when people don't hold the door. I don't know, that really bugs me... I guess I like manners.
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All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing.
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In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts - in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma - would someday be called Congressman.
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A free press doesn't mean it's not a tame press.
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My first songs were about animals and shoes. I wrote one song about PF Flyers, and one to my fish.
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Raise the taxes, and we find less money in our pockets. Lower the taxes, and we've got more money in those pockets, and we spend it on all kinds of things.
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It wasn't easy to get here, and it will not be easy to take my title away from me.
