Ishmael Beah Quotes
I believe that there is a God, and coming from an African tradition, I believe also that there are gods.
Quotes to Explore
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for what I pray to God will be forever.
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Network TV is such a difficult, competitive landscape.
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I was lucky I always got along with girls. It was never like a big deal. I had a lot of girls that I was friends with that I wasn't sexual with. I think having two older sisters made me comfortable like that. I just like people, so I can just go up and say whatever.
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For some people, miracles serve as evidence of God's existence.
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I'm an 'in the shower' or 'in the booth' kind of singer. I can sing, but I need either nobody to be able to hear me, or for me to be able to redo it.
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Nobody in my family before me ever had anything.
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Philosophy and theology have so much to tell us about God, but people today want to experience God. There is a difference between eating dinner and merely reading the menu.
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I've never liked the idea of working for other people.
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I think that 'Heroes' really is about family. I mean, sure, it's this surreal story, and it's about people with powers, but the story behind that story is a story of family.
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To me, style is consistency.
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Is it so big a mystery what god and man and world are? No! but nobody knows how to solve it so the mystery hangs on.
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Woo ah, mercy mercy me.Ah things ain't what they used to be, no no.Where did all the blue skies go?
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Skryabin comes so close to the twelve-note system that it seems probable he would have taken it as the next logical step.
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Never do I deceive you, Hastings. I only permit you to deceive yourself.
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I want to make my own life a masterpiece.
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You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.
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A lot of groups spend their whole cultural and aesthetic identity trying to move away from Africa, which I think is a mistake. One of the reasons I love Cuba and cultures like that is because they're not trying to move away from their African roots, they're trying to embrace them. That's part of the culture.
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An offensive war, I believe to be wrong and would therefore have nothing to do with it, having no right to meddle with another man's property, his ox or his ass, his man servant or his maid servant or anything this is his.
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You've got to be willing to forgive and say, 'God, get something good out of something bad.' And if you'll make that choice... God will do it.
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It's completely through prayer that I came to believe in God. I just sensed a presence south of my neck.
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I believe that there is a God, and coming from an African tradition, I believe also that there are gods.
