Frantz Fanon Quotes
From birth it is clear to him that this narrow world, strewn with prohibitions, can only be called in question by absolute violence.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
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Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
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When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
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I don't spend a lot on holidays, but have been very fortunate to travel extensively through doing various challenges around the world. The best place I've ever been is Argentina.
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Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.
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It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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I think it's all about the people who listen to your music, and loving playing and writing. Once you've got those two, and they're your main two priorities, then radio and TV and all the other stuff that comes with it will come. But that's not the be-all end-all.
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I'm like all parents who try to shelter their children.
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I was a curious child. I'd debate with anyone who came to the door - people from the Islamic community... Jehovah's Witnesses... anyone.
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It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen.
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Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.
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Coming home to my family afterward makes the work richer, easier and more fun.
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I don't want to be any kind of producer at all - hands-on or otherwise! I feel producing is a very difficult job and creates ulcers! Maybe some people would like to have a certain amount of control; not me. It's too much stress and includes managing everybody's egos... handling my own is enough!
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No government is ever really in favor of so-called civil rights. It always tries to whittle them down. They are preserved under all governments, insofar as they survive at all, by special classes of fanatics, often highly dubious.
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I think that when you put yourself, as actors have to do, in other people's shoes, when you have to put on the costume that someone else has worn in their life, it gets much, much harder to be prejudiced against them and even to be - to not try to look at the world in a sense of "I'm not going to judge somebody. I'm going to try to understand who they are and what they're about."
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I have seen so much obstructed potential among people who lack personal discipline, who just slough it off, whatever it is, and who think that nothing matters very much. I want my daughter to have what I think of as a capacity for self-discipline. Not the sort of self-discipline that diminishes her own wild passions, but that makes it safer for her to own those wild passions.
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The planet is asleep and it's the fault of musicians who are untrue to themselves.
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From birth it is clear to him that this narrow world, strewn with prohibitions, can only be called in question by absolute violence.
