Eugene V. Debs Quotes
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I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.
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I'm from Miami, I love it when we're out in the heat. When it's cold, I'm like, 'I'm never acting again,' because it's too freezing.
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A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again.
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As a child, I would put on shows in my neighborhood with friends and perform Barbra Streisand songs for my classmates.
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I get mad quick and and go off at the handle quick.
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No one is more enslaved than a slave who doesn't think they're enslaved.
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I was pregnant, and, like, 'Being a mom's going to be easy!' And now I'm like, 'Great.'
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I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.
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Beyond being timely, an obituary has a more subjective duty: to assess its subject's impact.
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E-mail, when it became mobile - what happened? Utilization of email went through the roof. Just pure Internet access and data - what happens when you mobilize it? Multiples. People are dependent upon broadband and as you mobilize it, they become even more dependent on broadband.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
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Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.
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I was well acquainted with the Calcutta literary circle since I was 17, when I lived in Bangladesh and published and edited a little magazine called 'Sejuti,' for which young poets from both Bengals wrote. If you look at my life, there is no question of using anyone for anything. I have only got banned, blacklisted and banished.
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Since, in the long run, every planetary society will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring - not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive.
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Polyphonic prose is a kind of free verse, except that it is still freer. Polyphonic makes full use of cadence, rime, alliteration, assonance.
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I believe in one Gnostic and Catholic Church of Light, Life, Love and Liberty, the Word of whose Law is THELEMA.
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I really didn't get it until very late in 2005 and 2006.
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You sort of have to become what you're wearing.
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We all have an entrepreneur in us; it's just whether we choose the tradeoffs to become one.
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I'm just glad that I'm the musical equivalent of a character actress, because blues singers can keep singing and having an audience at 35, and someone like Madonna's gonna have to find something else to do, 'cos I don't care how pointy those bras are that she wears, they're still gonna look a little odd when she's 55!
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I was born in Morocco and lived there until I was 13; I'm really proud of my heritage.
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I don't want to demonise 'Johnny.' I was really proud of what he achieved. Especially within stand-up. He was quite a unique voice. I will always possibly be trading off 'Johnny's name, but there's a lot more things that I'm able to do now - the strengths that 'Michael' can bring to it.
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I decided to build a studio in my house. We built it in my basement kitchen. I had the drummer up by the fish tank. I was in the toilet singing. The bass player was out by the shelves in the living room, and the guitarist was on the couch by the telly.
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From the crown of my head to the soles of my feet I am Bolshevik, and proud of it.
