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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In a way, an autobiography seems to me like a household book of accounts – what has been acquired, to what purpose has it been put, was too much paid for it and did it teach you anything? How much has been learned by experience? Have I discovered where I am useful and useless, how I am nourished and starved?
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I do 100 shows a year, but I do it in fits and starts, as opposed to going on a long run.
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Good shoes - they're the ultimate finishing touch. In fact, we actually joke in my family that your shoes have to be shined before you can leave the house.
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The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from everyday life.
