Bret Easton Ellis Quotes
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If I had to study and work hard, it would have to have the reward of a lot of cash.
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When I'm ready, I plan to adopt. I still believe in family.
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I was very rebellious.
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The Marine Corps is supposed to be the toughest and most rigorous of its class.
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When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.
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I get to sing and act and write and create and produce for a living and share art with people, and I feel like a piece of that is in honor of those who came before me.
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The people have nothing to fear of me; people have never feared me.
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I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating. Every time I see something beautiful, I not only want to return to it, but it makes me want to see other beautiful things. I know I'm not going to get to all the places I want to go.
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I was very politicized always. I was very conservative politically, because I'd seen what the communists did to my country.
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I was good at math, math was my thing - but I was not nearly good enough to be an astrophysicist. I was way outta my league. I realized this very quickly.
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Human opinions are formed by accident and hardened by repetition. We cling to acquired opinions only because they give the illusion of being wise opinions. This creates division and hostility between people.
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In our beginnings, Fantin, Whistler and I were all on the same road, the road from Holland Dutch 17th century painters
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I bust raps like the boys bust gat shit.
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One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his skin. The Negro today asks justice. We do not answer him - we do not answer those who lie beneath this soil - when we reply to the Negro by asking, 'Patience.'
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The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion.
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The one dream I have is to do a musical. I love singing, but most people don't know because I don't sell myself as a musical person. My dream is to play Audrey in 'Little Shop of Horrors' - it would be so interesting to have an Asian Audrey because it's all about achieving the American dream in a sinister, success-driven way.
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So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.
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Addressing climate change and positioning the United States as the leader in advanced energy should be a top priority for our country and our economy, and I applaud the Obama administration for the steps it is taking.
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a man can be given only what he can use; and he can use only that for which he has sacrificed something
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Unfortunately I have no rags-to-riches story to tell. Money never played a big role for me. My parents just had it.
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Our success or failure is not in the hands of our leaders. It is in our hands.
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That doesn't sound like...the Jayster.
