Ishmael Reed Quotes
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The great thing about baseball is there's a crisis every day.
Gabe Paul -
If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water in a kinked hose, and before thoughts can flow on the topic at hand, you have to straighten the hose by attending to whatever is preoccupying you.
Natalie Goldberg -
If a writer is always trying to keep a narrator emitting a tone of complete knowingness, it can become false.
Rachel Kushner -
Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.
Oscar Wilde -
And once, or twice, to throw the dice is a gentlemanly game, But he does not win who plays with Sin in the secret house of shame.
Oscar Wilde -
I can't be anybody but myself.
William Hung
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If this is a tribute show to Eddie, then I definitely want to be a part of it, and I know that he would want me to be a part of it also.
Eddie Guerrero -
Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
Willa Cather -
What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name.
William Godwin -
Anybody who preserves the ability to recognize beauty will never get old.
Franz Kafka -
We must proceed with our own energy development. Exploitation of domestic petroleum and natural gas potentialities, along with nuclear, solar, geothermal, and non-fossil fuels is vital. We will never again permit any foreign nation to have Uncle Sam over a barrel of oil.
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. -
There is a powerful force within us, an un-illuminated part of the mind - separate from the conscious mind that is constantly at work molding our thought, feelings, and actions.
Sigmund Freud
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Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good. Hence a prince who wants to keep his authority must learn how not to be good, and use that knowledge, or refrain from using it, as necessity requires.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli -
It's nothing to be ashamed of to have a stutter.
Emily Blunt -
We will leap tall couplets in a single bound.
Ishmael Reed