Geoffrey Holder Quotes
I walk through doors. If I'm not wanted in a place, there's something wrong with the place, not with me.
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Triple 6 Mafia and Mystikal in Atlanta was one of my first shows. I remember how sweaty and smashed up everybody was, and it was so punk rock.
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People don't blame the act of driving for auto accidents.
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I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true. We aren't satisfied with the secrets exposed on the surface of the page: we turn the book around to find the seams.
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The Broken Bow group is such a great family and seem like a group of tight-knit people. When I looked for a new label, I wanted to feel I could trust everybody. I wanted motivation to be at an all-time high.
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I had a lump on my face and had a big cancer thing removed.
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Incredible that liberals aren't more concerned about the monopoly of information in South Dakota.
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Since Queens is the most ethnically diverse plot of land on Earth, we had tenants from all over the globe. The whole world in one building.
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There's also a level of discipline I use as a writer, designed to get better at what I'm doing, that requires quite a lot of study and quite a lot of hard work as well.
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You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
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The only hope we have is the Internet. We must strive to keep it free.
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Elections have consequences, and at the end of the day, I won. So I think on that one I trump you.
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Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.
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We thank God that our enemies are idiots. (6 February 2006) 10
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The male is a biological accident: the y(male) gene is an incomplete x(female) gene, that is, has an incomplete set of chromosomes. In other words, the male is an incomplete female, a walking abortion.... To be male is to be deficient, emotionally limited; maleness is a deficiency disease and males are emotional cripples.
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There is always more spirit in attack than in defense.
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I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humour.
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He had gone beyond the world of metaphor and simile into the place of things that are, and it was changing him.
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Colleges and classrooms should be havens of tranquility, places where thoughtful discussions occur, where students work together with their teachers to acquire knowledge of the arts and sciences.
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I was afraid of just about everything in this world, with the possible exception of my mother and I wasn't too sure about her.
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To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.
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I think visual literacy and media literacy is not without value, but I think plain old-fashioned text literacy and mathematical literacy are much more powerful and flexible ways to organize your mind.
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I was very shy as a child. Very shy. Lot of problems with very simple things. Like entering a restaurant all by myself.
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Mostly I'm telling people that they don't have to be victims.
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I walk through doors. If I'm not wanted in a place, there's something wrong with the place, not with me.
