Eugene V. Debs Quotes
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
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I'd just play 'til my hands fell off. My parents would yell at me to stop because they couldn't stand the noise any more! I was terrible! It must have been hard for them to listen to me as a beginning drummer.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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There's no way you can predict what is going to happen in six months or two years in most businesses, and certainly not for businesses that are growing at the rate that we have grown.
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Any well-read man knows that the moral difference between the condition of the world before Christianity was planted and since Christianity took root is the difference between night and day, the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of the devil.
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I can change a light fixture, and I can do certain things. But I'm really bad in terms of construction. I can't do any of it on my own.
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It's very easy to be judgmental until you know someone's truth.
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Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes.
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I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way.
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People book me because of the songs I write, not because of the sets that I play, per se... I'm sure I'm going to be moving to a laptop really soon, but I was one of the last guys to let the vinyl go. I was crying. In my room, I still have thousands of records. I still pull them out and play them all the time.
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I don't think there's a defined contemporary American musical, do you?
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A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.
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If someone explains me the definition of love, I will give my life to the person. Love is a thing which is difficult to understand. Love is always evolving.
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It's a really subtle kind of thing. It makes me feel like Randy Harrison is not a human being to them.
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I love the Kathryn Bigelow example: she didn't just do war movies - she did them better than other directors.
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But all my life though, the very insistence on truth has taught me to appreciate the beauty of compromise. I saw in later life that this spirit was an essential part of Satyagraha. It has often meant endangering my life and incurring the displeasure of friends. But truth is hard as adamant and tender as a blossom.
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There are twenty-seven specific complaints against the British Crown set forth in the Declaration of Independence. To modern ears they still sound reasonable, in large part, because so many of them can be leveled against the federal government of the United States.
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That's one of those questions, whether human beings are really capable of change, or if all seeming changes are really a matter of framing the existing character in a different moral situation.
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I like happy things, I'm really calm and peaceful. I like birds, bees, I like people. I like funny things that make me happy and gleeful... like when my teacher sucked my wee-wee in pre-school!
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Would you know my name if I saw you in heaven? Would it be the same If I saw you in heaven?
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Stop talking about the problem and start thinking about the solution.
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There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history.
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Less is only more where more is no good.
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We are America, second to none, and we own the finish line. Don't forget it.
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When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
