Meek Mill (Robert Rihmeek Williams) Quotes
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Even when you're 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.
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There are so many things that come into writing a recipe, and it's really important if you're writing for home cooks to be cooking like you are at home.
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I grew up with a lot of exiles from Chile, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Colombia - I grew up with them, and I gained a family; I gained friends.
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The piece that had a large influence on me was Turangalila.
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If you exile a writer, however free the country he is sent to, there will always be a sense of internal constraint.
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Sometimes if you expose your vulnerability, someone else will feel comforted. It's like we're all in this boat together.
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In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.
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We say arts education is good for general education, but that's not the point. The arts are what great nations are remembered for. They are a mirror.
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It is not 'scientism' to concede the objectivity and precision of good science, any more than it is history worship to concede that Napoleon did once rule in France and the Holocaust actually happened. Those who fear the facts will forever try to discredit the fact-finders.
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Strew gladness on the paths of men-You will not pass this way again.
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I'm trying to get to bed, and you guys are singing 'The Whole World's in my fucking hand.' I'd rather you shut the fuck up!
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How should we deal with intrusions of fiction into life, now that we have seen the historical impact that this phenomenon can have? … Reflecting on these complex relationships between reader and story, fiction and life, can constitute a form of therapy against the sleep of reason, which generates monsters.
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Poetry is everlasting. It is not going away. But it has never occupied a sizeable part of the world's business, and it never will.
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Members of the generation that came of age after World War II-Korean War who join in a relaxation of social and sexual tensions, and who espouse anti-regimentation, mystic-disaffiliation, and material-simplicity values, supposedly as a result of cold-war disillusionment. Coined by Jack Kerouac.
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The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit - a reputation, character.
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Roughly speaking: to say of two things that they are identical is nonsense, and to say of one thing that it is identical with itself is to say nothing.
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The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
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I am not as cross about Thatcher now as I was in the '80s. Begrudgingly, I can see that some of her policies helped modernise Britain.
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Actually, depravity can be terribly boring if you don't smoke or drink.
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When I first started writing songs, I was probably about ten or twelve years old, and the first thing you think as a songwriter is, 'Can this be a hit? Can this come out, and people are going to hear the song and like the song, and then they're going to like you, and you'll get famous and rich?' That hasn't changed a bit.
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As the old African adage says, 'everybody skin to me ain't kin to me'. So you can't exclusively make that the criteria of your job selection and say that it's right when it's black and discrimination when it's white.
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Paradoxes are the only truths.
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I think everybody from Philadelphia been shot at before.
