Gene Wolfe Quotes
'Yours is a race of pawns,' Tzadkiel told me. 'You move forward only, unless we move you back to begin the game again. But not all the pieces on the board are pawns.'
Quotes to Explore
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On issue after issue, the Obama Administration has openly ignored, defied, and unilaterally tried to change the law.
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I breeze through Twitter - I look at the mentions, the pictures, the videos.
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I used to think I was a singer; I had my own delusions about it.
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I feel optimistic about how heterogeneous societies pull together. We just have to keep on with the struggle.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed in male human skulls; the cruel entertainments of the Romans drew audiences as female as they were male; Boudicca led her British troops bloodily into battle.
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I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
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Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.
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It's more fun to look at an old picture of me than it is to look at a new one sometimes. Although, I still wear a dress pretty well.
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Over the years, I have worked very hard to achieve what I have so far. But I've not been alone in this journey. A lot of the credit for this goes to my fans - it's because of them that I'm here today.
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I made that first record in 2008, alongside the EP, but my label at the time waited three years to release it. They thought maybe someone bigger would buy it, but they didn't, so in the end they just released it themselves.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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I'm looking to expand my portfolio while I'm on top and while I'm young.
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I cannot be music director at La Scala and at Staatsoper. This would be unfair to one of the two institutions.
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I'm so excited and honored to be part of 'Entertainment Tonight!' 'E.T.' was the show that started all the entertainment news, so I couldn't be more thrilled.
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Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
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I don't think of myself as a fast reader. I just read a lot. When someone else might think, 'I might do the dishes,' I don't. But then the dishes multiply.
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The media and press can be relentless, especially with women. Personally, while I take pride in my appearance and enjoy the compliments, when I'm on court, it is all about my game.
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Every game we played them (Dallas) was close, other than the last game. Actually we were up 19 points in that game, and we let them come back and beat us, we know we can win a game there. I think for us, it's can we finish games?
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Leave the fishing-rod, Great General, to us sovereigns of Pharos and Canopus. Your game is cities and kings and continents.
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Sometimes this was just the way the game ended. Sometimes you did your best, and it all went straight to hell anyway.
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'Yours is a race of pawns,' Tzadkiel told me. 'You move forward only, unless we move you back to begin the game again. But not all the pieces on the board are pawns.'
