John Henrik Clarke Quotes
Anytime you turn on your own concept of God, you are no longer a free man. No one needs to put chains on your body, because the chains are on your mind.
Quotes to Explore
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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Human technology has made it to Mars. We are transmitting gorgeous pictures from it. Yet we have not explored our own planet. Two-thirds of it is covered with oceans that are still mysterious places.
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I would love to see as many of the black players as possible in today's Major League Baseball make every effort to go to the Negro Leagues Museum and get a first-hand view of how it all started.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
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The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
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The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.
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Thank God for the potholes on memory lane.
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I don't like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don't like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there's a lot of copy, a lot of imitation, a lot of tradition, and this I have put it aside.
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I was raised by women. Now I'm raising women. I was always better around girls. I live in an all-female household. I even have two female dogs... It's funny how that turned out.
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Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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If you want to be happy, make others happy!
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The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.
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If I don't seem as depressed or morose as I should be, sorry to disappoint you.
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Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
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I wanted to write a story set in the Lovecraftian universe that didn't gloss over the uglier implications of his worldview.
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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Let us therefore continue our triumphal march to the realization of the American dream... for all of us today, the battle is in our hands... The road ahead is not altogether a smooth one. There are no broad highways that lead us easily and inevitably to quick solutions... We are still in for the season of suffering... How long? Not long. Because no lie can live forever... our God is marching on.
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The daughters of God don't brake for jerks.
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God can have our money and not have our hearts, but He cannot have our hearts without having our money.
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Sleater-Kinney becomes bigger than the three of us. It pulls us along, in a way.
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I had a career that was very short, but it had a lot of thrills.
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Anytime you turn on your own concept of God, you are no longer a free man. No one needs to put chains on your body, because the chains are on your mind.
