Peace Pilgrim Quotes
People see themselves as the center of the universe and judge everything as it relates to them.
Quotes to Explore
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At times, it seems as if the only women effortlessly balancing their jobs, kids, husbands and homes are the ones on TV.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.
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You have to find a way - and thankfully for me, it's been music - to separate yourself from the racial identity. It's not easy, and I continue to work, God bless, and I'm really, truly appreciative of it.
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I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.
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If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.
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I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.
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To capture sound is to isolate a moment, canonize it, enter it into the historical register.
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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
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I wasn't into sports, but I was really into Shakespeare.
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The idea of collaborating with anyone else was quite daunting. If Battles had any trepidation in asking me, I can assure you I had more after agreeing to do it.
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I don't stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I'm doing tomorrow.
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Rock Hudson wasn't my type. He's a great guy and had a great sense of humor.
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At the end, it's your movie and your performance that stands out. So if I am a good actor, and if am being part of good entertaining engaging films, audiences will like me.
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As President Trump quickly moved to limit immigration, civil rights, and environmental protections, I felt fear for my young children, and guilt, too - as if I'd somehow betrayed the unspoken contract all parents make to give our children a better life than ourselves.
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At one point, I had 14 pairs of golf shoes.
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Well first of all you have to make the character strong so that people can follow that. And then hopefully that character can integrate with the background of the social situation that people can recognize.
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I was raised in a large family. The first reason for my travel was to get away from my family. I knew that I wanted to be a writer, but I didn't want people to ask me questions about it.
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Travel is wonderful. Everyone thinks it's wonderful.
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I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.
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Something is wrong with America. I wonder sometimes what people are thinking about or if they're thinking at all.
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I am not sure the issue of race in America will ever be completely solved.
Colson Whitehead -
People see themselves as the center of the universe and judge everything as it relates to them.
