Jose Marti Quotes
An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.
Quotes to Explore
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Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.
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It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.
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I'm probably a natural uncle. I can take the kids out and have fun with them and look after them, and I can be Mr. Popular. But actually having to do the grind? That stuff just doesn't appeal at all.
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The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples.
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All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.
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If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.
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I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.
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I am healthy and happy.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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I began hearing rumors of apossible recording session with Neil Young. I was a huge fan of Neil's.
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I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'
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I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'
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Identify your niche and dominate it. And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.
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The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
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I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.
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World-building is my favorite pastime, so with me, I'm always about reining myself in. I don't want to lose too much of the mystery by hammering every detail to death. I did fiddle with lots of maps for 'Glass Sword,' as the second installment sees Mare, Cal and company traveling throughout their country, and that's always fun for me.
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I was reared in the conservative atmosphere of a Methodist parsonage.
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I am convinced that the world-wide protests during the Rivonia trial saved Mandela and his fellow-accused from a death sentence. But in South Africa, a life sentence means imprisonment until death - or until the defeat of the government which holds these men prisoner.
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The Bible is not a book that you can open and say, 'Now, Lord, put some magic into my soul that will open up the meaning of this book.' There is only one way really to understand the Word, and that is through wrestling with the circumstances and happenings of life.
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The life of which meaning one never ponders is not worth living.
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Don't worry, be happy.
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An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.
