Euripides Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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We don't want to create a literary ghetto in which black writers are only allowed to write black characters and women writers are put on 'girl books.'
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I studied Morse code.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.
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We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.
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Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
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My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
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It's a sin to be tired.
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People always thought I'd never get elected outside San Francisco; I was always more worried that I'd never get elected again inside San Francisco.
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I'm not looking for a 'yes' woman, but a strong person who knows when to be objective and when not to be.
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Sadly, black people disassociate ourselves from the things which make us who we are, identifying them as lesser, or inferior. It's a form of self hate. So, with reckless abandon, we strive to be like the majority.
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Wherever I find love I will accept it.
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I have a deep compassion for the idea that it's okay to be myself. The idea that anything 'other' is bad and wrong and broken is so wildly off base.
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I have three young kids and a great family. I love hanging out with them more than anything.
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As a society we should be encouraging people out of the debt-culture mindset, not promoting it.
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The last thing I want my child to see is Dad running around in the middle of the pack. That would really upset me. And that would upset him. I would be embarrassed to take him to school with kids saying, 'Hey, how'd your dad do this weekend?' 'Well, he finished fifth or sixth'.
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How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men?
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There is no way I'd have wanted to live in the Twenties. It was really crap for women.
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The experience of watching great cinema - great art - is life enriching and spiritually uplifting no matter whether it's about as difficult as it gets, like 'Breaking the Waves,' or as light as it gets, like 'Jerry Maguire,' 'Election' or 'Toy Story.'
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Democracy is a word all public men use and none understand.
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If trees can create art, if they can encircle the globe seven times in one year, if prisoners can grow plants and raise frogs, then perhaps there are other static entities that we hold inside ourselves, like grief, like addictions, like racism, that can also change.
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Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it's all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was doing, enjoying doing it on my own in the first place.
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What greater grief than the loss of one's native land.
