Grace Dell Nichols (Nichelle Nichols) Quotes
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I'm not coming back to play.
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History is a set of lies agreed upon.
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People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries.
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We'll see if we ever do another Ministry gig again or not. I'm not saying yes or no yet. All I'm saying is I know there's no new Ministry studio CDs coming ever again. I promise.
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The one thing the guys have done an inch more than last year was coming out and challenging themselves even more. I said this last year that they challenged themselves, but this year they have added onto that.
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[John] Calvin is revered as a thinker of immense importance in Reformed thought, Jonathan Edwards could say in his preface to his treatise on Freedom of the Will that he had derived none of his views from the work of Calvin, though he was willing to be called a "Calvinist" for the sake of convention.
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Conventions are like coins, an easy way of dealing with the commerce of relations.
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I tell ya, gambling never agreed with me. Last week I went to the track and they shot my horse with the opening gun.
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It was a performance that had been coming for a while and it does not shock me all that much. When the pressure came on we produced the goods and we can take great satisfaction from that.
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Everybody's coming to the same party. We're all here.
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I'm ready for conventions. You know what's interesting, the sort of questions that Lost raises are of a different sort from this movie. In other words, Lost is about figuring out the world of the show, whereas this one seems to raise questions about the world that we know. But I'm happy to entertain both.
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For myself, I haven't been content to carry on producing books that merely strain against the conventions - as I've grown older, and realised that there aren't that many books left for me to write, so I've become determined that they should be the fictive equivalent of ripping the damn corset off altogether and chucking it on the fire.
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Conventions are often more cruel than the law.
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Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality saves so much time and thought and trouble and social friction of one sort or another that it leaves them much more leisure time for freedom than unconventionality does.
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As a journalist, or an anthropologist, the convention is that people are there for you to study, and they are your objects.
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There are a lot of songs about love and how it starts, whether that's realizing it yourself or coming to find it later on - but no sort of talk about the actual feelings that are created from love and passion.
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[at soundcheck in an empty hall] Good Evening Kreuth, thank you for coming so much...
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I've been doing these conventions for 20 years, and we used to at least have debates about issues. Nothing is happening basically at this convention, other than speeches.
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Love calls – everywhere and always. We're sky bound. Are you coming?
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Cheerfulness is the daughter of employment; and I have known a man come home in high spirits from a funeral, merely because he has had the management of it.
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I want to create a kind of new monster language for kids to play with, pick up, and incorporate into their own vocabularies.
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Art is to console those who are broken by life.
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I've agreed to do several Star Trek conventions this coming year.
