Sean MacBride Quotes
The right of an individual to refuse to kill, to torture, or to participate in the preparation for the nuclear destruction of humanity seems to me to be fundamental.
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In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.
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When I taught, the way in which we got evaluated is what I used to call the drive-by evaluation. Somebody would come in for 20 minutes with a checklist, and that would be your evaluation. So it was clearly a snapshot.
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A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.
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Music was in the air when I was growing up. My siblings Katy, Dave and Phil were musical; my dad worked in inner-city New York where a musical revolution was taking place - folk music, rock n' roll, gospel music. My sister taught me to sing. My brothers taught me to play.
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People get tired of you. So they decided to throw me out. And so help me God, as the numbers were coming in, I said to myself, 'I'm free at last.'
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When I think about voting, I can skip it and still see myself as a good citizen. But when I think about being a voter, now the choice reflects on my character. It casts a shadow.
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There isn't a class structure in Nigeria; there's a tribal structure and prestige as far as money is concerned.
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The insidious aid culture has left African countries more debt-laden, more inflation-prone, more vulnerable to the vagaries of the currency markets and more unattractive to higher-quality investment.
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Power to the peaceful.
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And several galleries – two had asked me and I said no, because I didn't want to leave things on consignment.
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I appreciate the idea that anybody would think of me as a star. But I'm really not career oriented in the sense that I want to be a star. It's not in me. It's not what I do. In fact, I'm amazed that I've even gotten this far.
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Why am I seeking logic or sanity here? I'd asked myself at the moment. There hasn’t been any so far.
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Let us honour if we canThe vertical manThough we value noneBut the horizontal one.
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Indeed, it is not intellect, but intuition which advances humanity. Intuition tells man his purpose in this life.
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This is an evil law, a black flag hovers over it.
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I had a great love affair in high school and let myself have that love affair and tried to keep it to myself.
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I tend to think that the best face of humanity is that we learn. We explore, we study, we think.
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Alas! by what slight means are great affairs brought to destruction.
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Those damned sons of bitches thought they had me in a trap! I know that damned Douglass; he's just like any nigger, and he would sooner cut a white man's throat than not.
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The right of an individual to refuse to kill, to torture, or to participate in the preparation for the nuclear destruction of humanity seems to me to be fundamental.
