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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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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Shallow communities are relatively easy to build.
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For 20 years I've gotten to laugh my way through my work. For me, that's a dream job.
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Marriage finally became acceptable to the churches when laws were established that could make it a means of depriving women of incomes and property, and making wives the equivalent of slaves.
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I'd never put all my chips anywhere, because I don't want to close any doors, but I was raised in a very blue-collar family. I was raised by parents who said, 'If you don't go to work every day, you're not contributing', so that's my mentality. I have to work every day; I have to bring home a paycheck.
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I am especially fascinated with mermaids, and they are always coming out in pirate stories.
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It wasn't easy to get here, and it will not be easy to take my title away from me.
