Joe Slovo Quotes
We need to respond to the mood of the people - that we must take the lives of the other side as well.
Quotes to Explore
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Graffiti has an interesting relationship to the broader world of hip-hop: It's part of the culture, but also in a weird way a stepchild of the culture.
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When I was growing up, we never had much money. My parents were divorced young, but I was always surrounded by loving individuals. They couldn't give us riches, but they gave us their stories, their hearts, and their time.
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Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
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You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word.
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All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.
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By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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I've always wanted to do a period piece.
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I had an Indiana Jones fedora that I loved. I don't know what happened to it. I don't know where it went. Wish I had it back. Whoever's got it, you suck.
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When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.
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A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.
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I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
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I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
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My mom has helped me nurture my interest and hone my talent.
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I love comedy; I'm very goofy and spontaneous.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.
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My label understands that I am really attached to Malaysia, that I come home a lot.
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I think the most important thing journalism taught me is to mine for details. The details are key. You can't try to be funny or strange or poignant; you have to let the details be funny or strange or poignant for you.
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I have a high tolerance for discomfort.
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Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.
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That's how I would describe myself, persistent.
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Can the word ‘best’ mean anything at all, except to some particular person in some particular mood? Perhaps not - so if we allow the word to stand as an absolute, you, or you, or perhaps you, may be appalled at omissions or inclusions or, never having read me before, may even be impelled to cry out, ‘Good heavens, are those his best?’
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We need to respond to the mood of the people - that we must take the lives of the other side as well.
