John Lewis (John Robert Lewis) Quotes
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I love Katy Perry and Lady GaGa. I think GaGa's pushing the envelope every day and I really like that.
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I only get ill when I give up drugs...
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The only lost cause is one we give up on before we enter the struggle.
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The only right a Christian has is the right to give up his rights.
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The camera's dumb, it don't [sic] care who's pushing the button. It doesn't know.
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Never give up your power to another person.
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Who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge?
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I want to keep pushing the limits to see what's possible. That's the nice thing about ski racing - no one is stopping you from going faster.
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You can't join a team and give up on it because you lose a few games or things aren't going well.
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An artist must eat sparingly and give up a normal way of life.
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I ask my destiny - what power is this That cruelly drives me onward without rest? My destiny says, "Look round!" I turn back and see It is I myself that is ever pushing me from behind.
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We give up what we want to give up and keep what in some way we still want to keep. There are payoffs for holding on to small, weak patterns. We have an excuse not to shine. We don't have to take responsibility for the world when we're spending all our time in emotional pain. We're too busy. The truth that sets us free is an embrace of the divine within us.
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I feel like he's taking advantage of me. Advantage of my illness. He thinks he can rewrite history in any way that he likes and I will never know, never be any the wiser. But I do know. I know exactly what he's doing. And so I don’t trust him. In the end he is pushing me away, Dr. Nash. Ruining everything.
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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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Glen Rice is a wonderful man. He's a wonderful guy, but you want her to be with somebody like [Dennis] Rodman getting up in there. Pushing her guts up into the back of her head.
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What we call truths are just those errors that we cannot give up.
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Give up your relentless moralizing, the continual pinpricks which pierce the skin of your fellows. The distinction between good and evil is the sickness of the mind. Give up your morals, and the people will regain a love of their fellows.
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Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up.
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Someone said to me, 'If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?' My answer was then and still is, 'If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.'
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I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.
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There haven't been fundamental structural changes in America. There's been a very important symbolic change and that is the election of Barack Obama. But the only black people who truly live in a post-racial world in America all live in a very nice house on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
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One must have deeper motives and judge everything accordingly, but go on talking like an ordinary person.
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I'm the only African here, but why does it look like you can sponsor Kennedy Davenport for 30 cents a day?
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You cannot give up - you have to be persistent and keep pushing, and press on.
