Rollie Fingers Quotes
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Social revolutions are never simple.
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When people say 'marriage' to me... It's always a means to an end. Everyone's so in a rush to define the relationship.
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If you read all your history books, there are no women in them.
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Genius consists not in making great discoveries, but in seeing the connection between small discoveries.
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We may be born equal but we're not equally talented.
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If I were sure I would pass the physicals, I would be on the next space shuttle to Mars or some other planet. I'll leave the calculations and the navigational tasks to you while I bask in your ingenuity. Find me a place in the capsule and watch me outdo Michael Jackson's moonwalk to the music of the spheres.
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I tried to be really tough when I was younger. I felt I had to stand up for myself. I never felt like I fit in.
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Labor also wants shorter hours and a say in how work shall be done.
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What's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you want the death, don't you?
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One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
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Most people write a lot of autobiography, but when I came to write autobiography I discovered that nothing interesting had ever happened to me. So I had to take the situation and invent stories to go with it.
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I want an autobiography without revealing any personal information.
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The F.B.I. was very happy with the article they produced, which was entitled, "The Black Merchants of Hate," that came out in early 1963. What's significant about that piece is that that became the template for what evolved into the basic narrative structure of The Autobiography of Malcolm X.
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Of all forms of fiction, autobiography is the most gratuitous.
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Nature, when left to universal laws, tends to produce regularity out of chaos.
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Range is of the ego, form is of the soul.
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We are reaping the fruits of ten thousand, fifty thousand years of sowing of the fields of mind. And it is being dropped into our laps for us to create human-machine interfacing, control of genetic material, redefinition of social reality, re engineering of languages, revisioning of the planetary ecology, all these things fall upon us.
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It is television; we're making television at the end of the day. It's all smoke and mirrors, and it's all fake, but it's not, because it makes people really feel things that are real.
