Jose Marti Quotes
Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.
Quotes to Explore
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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I am absolutely not saying that Milosevic might not be responsible for all sorts of atrocities, but I believe that what's been left out of public debate and the press is that there was a civil war going on there.
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Most people who are activists and are concerned about issues get their information from sources which reinforce their opinions and give them the facts that they want to hear.
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I read nonfiction almost exclusively – both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.
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Some comics have long routines to get them in the mood - I just prefer to sit down, write out the same jokes in a different order and then have a little prayer that I won't be met by silence.
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I like dark subject matter. I'm not sure what that means about me!
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Children learn much more from how you act than from what you tell them. There are times this worries me - we parents are rarely the role models we want to be. True for life. True for driving.
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I try to do things I love or care about for some reason.
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I have a confession to make. In the beginning, I did not understand the Kate Moss phenomenon.
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I think it's unfair that people can't give assets to whoever they want. When I die, my assets can go to my wife. And a gay person - you ought to have a system where maybe you can just say, 'You can give your assets to anybody you want.'
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I happen to be extremely left-brained; my instinct is to draw a chart rather than a picture.
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I archive a lot of my clothes and have them wrapped up and in boxes. I call them 'little tombs' and keep them in a storage space... I would never get rid of the dress I wore on the night I won my Oscar. When I die, someone can have it, but not a minute before!
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If you never budge, don't expect a push.
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I want to see 10 female rappers getting regular rotation. It can't be all about a man's opinion.
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I think putting labels on people is just an easy way of marketing something you don't understand.
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My own death threats have declined considerably.
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I love to vacuum. There's just something so satisfying about hearing detritus sucked up into a vacuum. Sand makes such a great sound when being vacuumed off a hardwood floor.
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Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time. I must continue to bear testimony to truth even if I am forsaken by all. Mine may today be a voice in the wilderness, but it will be heard when all other voices are silenced, if it is the voice of Truth.
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A man and a woman Are one. A man and a woman and a blackbird Are one.
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Anyway, when I finished the book, I handed it in, didn't want to read it again, but when it finally was in print I felt like OK, I have to read this. And yeah, I thought God, this is petty, this is silly, too emotional, too raw...and maybe it was then, but now it all seems that it's so much better because all the stuff that felt petty and silly now seems more relevant because Andy was so important.
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I often wonder if I had the complete freedom to not have to write, if I would write. That's the one mystery that I hope I get to experience.
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My positioning with my investors was always, I need three to five years.
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I wrote 'Snowy' as a result of spending a week on a narrow boat with daily classes of children, helping them to write about canal life, the work of barges, the simple pleasure of watching the water creatures. There was no doubt that the star of their week was Snowy, the working barge horse who pulled us daily along the towpath.
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Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.
