Javan Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.
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In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
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'Cold Case Files' and similar shows do bang up business, which points to a certain thirst for details in the viewership, but it seems like all the news chat shows continue to force the myth that Americans can't stand detail and have no interest in an idea that can't fit on a bumper sticker.
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I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like he's not challenging himself.
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If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks.
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My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.
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The greatest thing about being in a band, and the strength of having companionship and collaboration, is also the thing that makes a band break up because then you begin to feel confined. Like, who am I as an individual, as a writer, as a performer?
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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I want to have a career in 10, 20 years, so it's harder now, and maybe more stressful now, but in the future, hopefully it will all pay off.
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When you know that people know who you are, you are always working - and not the work you want to do. You are sort of performing, because you know they are looking - or at least glancing - at you.
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Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.
Nastassja Kinski -
You can blame my mom for some of my worst fashion moments. She used to dress me and my sister in a lot of patterns. Like, she would put me in striped stockings with a floral dress. Like, why are you doing that to me?
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There's nothing in the Bible that says, 'You must play video games.'
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I know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that.
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I grew up listening to Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf and lots of blues, R&B and Motown.
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It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.
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I always liked Casey Stengel as a manager because he seemed to have a grasp of so many things.
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Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.
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We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s.
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When I'm very motivated, and when I have to compete, I change a little bit; I become very competitive.
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My great-grandfather came here as a refugee from the pogrom in Ukraine.
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A certain emotional frostiness is the heritage of a culture that puts great stock in WASP values: One does not talk about money sex, religion, and above all, one does not expose one's feelings. If a case can be made for the cultural contouring of personality, the Puritan ethic is the culprit in such rubrics as 'Children should be seen and not heard' and 'Never complain, never explain.
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I was a wedding singer as a teenager.
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Listen closely as those around you speak; great truths are revealed in jest.
