Rafael dos Anjos Quotes
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
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It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
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Sometimes I feel like I have a dozen different people inside of me. I've always been that way, and I've always written stuff down.
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'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.
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Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.
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I don't study; I create.
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I dress for men.
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There are, essentially, as many opinions on marriage as there are people in the world.
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I'm a machine man, and I head a machine.
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I'm happy that I'm alive. I feel like someone coming back from Vietnam, you know; I'm sure that later on I'll start killing people in a square somewhere, but right now, I just feel happy to be alive.
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I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.
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If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.
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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.
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That's the state to live and die in!...R-r-rich!
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Although it is hard to see why any sensible authority would feel threatened by the peaceful expression of one's point of view, there is a long history of trying to repress subversive depictions of political figures - back in the 19th century, for example, France's King Louis Philippe was depicted as a piece of fruit.
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I don't want people who are in poverty, in pain, or suffering, to suffer because it's for their own good and they can pull themselves up by their bootstraps. I want to help them. I want us all to help them.
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No Ponzi schemer tells anyone exactly how it works. The purpose of a Ponzi scheme is to trick people, to take the money and run.
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I'm not for having to support everything that's black, because I definitely don't. But I do feel like it is imperative for us to see that we are not a monolithic people.
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Everything I want to do in my life, I want to be at the top.
