Rudyard Kipling Quotes
Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.
Quotes to Explore
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There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect.
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We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
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By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.
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The trouble with photographing beautiful women is that you never get into the dark room until after they've gone.
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I think it's good to have pressure on yourself. The worst crime is to get kind of really complacent.
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You're hot for two seconds, and you're struggling to get work again. If it were easy, I don't think that's a good place for an artist to work from.
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Managing to tell a story is very gratifying.
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Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.
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I'm the one who started redevelopment in South Los Angeles, not Jan Perry. I did it. I love Jan. She's a good person, and she did a wonderful job with what she did downtown, but in L.A., South L.A., I'm the one.
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When one begins, as I did, to analyze men after a fairly long experience of analyzing women, one receives a most surprising impression of the intensity of this envy of pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood, as well as of breasts and of the act of suckling.
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Anybody who knew me growing up calls me Vinny.
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Without Ukraine, Russia's imperial aspirations are essentially nostalgia, but it's not a real policy.
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For whoever habitually suppresses the truth in the interests of tact will produce a deformity from the womb of his thought.
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I'll do one eventually as life's too short and none of us is getting any younger. I'd like to make one while I still look good and before I look like Phil Collins, which, eventually, I will.
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Grief should be the instructor of the wise; Sorrow is Knowledge.
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All jealousy must be strangled in its birth.
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Whatever kind of vibe, whatever kind of mood I'm in in the day, if I overthink it then I don't get anything good out of it
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I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones.
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The color of your skin is your uniform in this ultimate battle for the survival of the West.
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At the end of the '60s, I was trying to enter the world of comics.
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The rumble of a subway train, the rattle of the taxis.
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Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.
