Michael Berryman Quotes
Censorship is a strange situation. There was times when people would burn books because they didn't like what people were doing.
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It's mad what each generation vilifies. It's not necessarily to do with logic.
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What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
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When I began I thought that literature was contained within a bubble that somehow floated above the world commented upon by newspapers. But I became more and more interested in trying to include some of that world within my work.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions in America, but they're not gone.
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Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literary or technological terms, and that's because we're all too human and, I think, have the tendency to see what we want to or, in the case of those more paranoid, what we fear.
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I never was in the Nation of Islam... I mean, what I call myself is a natural Muslim, 'cause it's just me and God.
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My goal is I want to create the 20-20-20 club: 20 sacks, 20 tackles for loss, 20 batted balls.
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The young people who join extremist groups are clearly suffering from massive deficiencies in religious knowledge and are often politically gullible (when they are not attempting to salve pangs of conscience by cutting themselves off from a life of delinquency).
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We won't be in any reggae publications or websites.
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If I get to be a legend, I've achieved my goal.
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The thing about Pablo is that he wasn't happy with what he had - just being the sixth richest man in the world. He wanted to be loved. He wanted to be accepted. He wanted to be President of Colombia; he wanted his kids to go to the same school as the Colombian elite. But he wouldn't be accepted by the elite.
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I don't need to scare the other athletes. When I'm running, I will scare them.
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Without a thorough conviction of sin, men may seem to come to Jesus and follow Him for a season, but they will soon fall away and return to the world.
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I really think that everybody would like to be an actor. Why wouldn't they? It's great work if you can get it. The one thing that prevents most people from saying, 'I'm just gonna go to Hollywood!' is that it seems unrealistic.
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Before reciting his prayers, a man should give to charity.
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Shaun Wright-Phillips has got a big heart. It's as big as him, which isn't very big, but it's bigger.
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I think this is very strange - All things are strange which are worth knowing (...).
