Ishmael Reed Quotes
Dualism:: In Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man I am outside of history. I wish i had some peanuts, it looks hungry there in the cage. I am outside of history. Its hungrier than i thot.
Quotes to Explore
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I love sport and will do just about anything. Someone said they'd had a go at skiing off a mountain with a parachute, and that sounds great!
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We want to get to a point where anything you can think of finding that is video related is searchable or recommended to you on YouTube.
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I'm an actor, so I like costumes.
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Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.
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In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted to carry weapons, to swat an insect or speak an angry word, a discipline that introduced them to a new way of living.
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I've always been captivated by the Voynich Manuscript - the mysterious, 15th-century encrypted codex that still baffles cryptologists, linguists, and historians.
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Poetry emulates the Cosmos perhaps because the Cosmos itself is the grandest conceivable example of rhythm, rhyme, harmony and concinnity.
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When I was a little baby, I remember that one moment of calm peace, and three minutes after that, it was on.
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One of the perks of being a 'New Yorker' cartoonist is that you get to hang around with interesting people. My fellow cartoonists are all interesting, and all highly creative.
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I use Redken color on my hair and use mild shampoos that don't strip your hair of color. If I need to, I'll use a good colored mousse in between.
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I am saying that all predictions concerning climate are highly uncertain.
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The thing to remember about Obama is he doesn't care if you like him or I like him or somebody else does. He literally would rather do homework with his kids than be around other politicians. Does this make him unpopular at times? Yes. Does it make him ineffective? Most certainly not.
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What I think is so amazing about having everything, and feeling like I have everything, is that I don't really find happiness within materialistic things. Like, it's cool if I can buy myself a new car, and I think it's amazing for a week, but then the thrill is over, and I'm like, 'Oh, so I guess that wasn't really happiness.'
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To me, a book is a book, an electronic device is not, and love of books was the reason I started writing.
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Los Angeles is a very magical place when you take the entertainment industry out of it. You have beautiful beaches and amazing mountains here. I'm a big rock climber. I head out into the mountains whenever I have free time. It's amazing.
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I'm not an investor in Meerkat, sadly, or, Periscope - I missed both of those - however, I do have a lot of inside information.
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Visual representation of it is essential if we're to come to terms with what it is we've done.
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My primary responsibility is to be funny.
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There is no other way to start the season than to win the Daytona 500.
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The self-help section of national bookstore chains in America is one of the largest sections. In a way, it's nothing new, and in another way, very new. People have always searched for answers; that's why we have religion. People have always been seeking some relief from their own mortality.
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Picture books are being marginalised. I get the feeling children are being pushed away from picture books earlier and earlier and being told to look at 'proper' books, which means books without pictures.
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You look at Michael McDonald and people like that; I think they just tried to write music that was true to themselves. That's our bottom line. Whatever people view us as, I think as long as we try to create good music that will win out in the end.
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I've always tried to figure out what people think of themselves and what they think they're projecting.
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Dualism:: In Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man I am outside of history. I wish i had some peanuts, it looks hungry there in the cage. I am outside of history. Its hungrier than i thot.
