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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I have not intended to denigrate or hurt the beliefs of anyone through my art.
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I was authorized to do everything that I did.
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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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Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.
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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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I like to buy books for the kids in my family. I guess that's why they call me the 'mean' aunt.
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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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I just felt being part of my peer group so strongly. I was immersed in teen culture, but not taken in by it.
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I grew up singing Mexican music, and that's based on indigenous Mexican rhythms. Mexican music also has an overlay of West African music, based on huapango drums, and it's kind of like a 6/8 time signature, but it really is a very syncopated 6/8. And that's how I attack vocals.
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I think if you set yourself specific goals, that's quite a lot of pressure.
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But it has often happened that I have found the most seductive depictions of sin in the pages of those very men of incorruptible virtue who condemned their spell and their effects.
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Economics is a strange science. Our subject deals with some of the most important as well as mundane issues that impinge on the human condition.
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When people start hurling insults at you, you know their minds are closed and there's no point in debating. You disengage yourself as quickly as possible from the situation.
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Censorship is a strange situation. There was times when people would burn books because they didn't like what people were doing.
