Eugene V. Debs Quotes
I would no more teach children military training than teach them arson, robbery, or assassination.
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There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.
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I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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I always say my music is like dark blue or black, like a punch to your gut that feels really good.
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The U.S. is the last country that should see itself as an ally of the apartheid system.
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Being yourself is what will make you survive through anything. If you make music to please someone, it's the first step in the wrong direction. Always do what you believe in, no matter what people say. Only way to go!
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Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
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I don't think your personal life has anything to do with your professional life. They are separate things. Whatever is happening at home shouldn't be carried to work. Everyone has his/her own journey. Some revel in the fact that they derive that from personal contentment, and others draw it from extreme sorrow.
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Nothing is a better icebreaker than a great joke.
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When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.
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Men need marriage more than women do. In fact, they need it to survive.
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The uncommon man has done the impossible and there has been that much more light in the world because of it. Children respond to heroes by thinking creatively and sometimes in breaking beyond the bounds of the impossible in their turn, and so becoming heroes themselves.
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In the real world, very smart people fail and mediocre people rise. Part of what makes people fail or succeed are skills that have nothing to do with IQ. Also, the idea that intelligence can be gauged by an IQ test is erroneous.
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Without social media, I'd probably just be a quirky, amateur photographer with a hard drive full of photos. I'd be cold calling respected publications, begging for a feature.
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My whole life has been one of seeking experience.
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I hated stand-up.
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The word 'carer' makes me think of someone with a nylon overall and a long list of 'clients' to wash before she finishes her shift. A companion was something unique. A kind of live-in friend.
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He might be my boyfriend. He might not be my boyfriend.
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The arousing of prejudice, pity, anger, and similar emotions has nothing to do with the essential facts, but is merely a personal appeal to the man who is judging the case.
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A mathematician is only perfect insofar as he is a perfect man, sensitive to the beauty of truth.
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That concerns me a lot, ... When we don't play smart football, that really concerns you.
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There are four types of men in the world: lovers, opportunists, lookers-on, and imbeciles. The happiest are the imbeciles.
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When ISIS and al Qaeda have attacked or plotted attacks in the West in the past decade or so, they have invariably used hydrogen peroxide-based bombs because acquiring military-grade explosives or dynamite is nearly impossible for would-be terrorists in Western countries.
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I would no more teach children military training than teach them arson, robbery, or assassination.
