Kage Baker Quotes
It was growing dusk, the blue hour when solid things take on a certain transparency and phantoms become palpable.
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When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.
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It's easy to forget history or give it a cliff notes. The cliff notes of history. But mainly, so much of what happens in 'Eyes on the Prize' happened in Jackson, Mississippi. Jackson, Mississippi isn't really known for any other touchstone to the movement, other than Medgar Evers being killed. There were sit-ins and riots and atrocities.
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The 'army camp' that coordinates the agencies of our brain is vulnerable, both in itself and from within. In effect, he who can know and master its functioning and psychology from outside can become twice its master.
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I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.
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My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'
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I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as president that I do agree with, I love that phrase, 'the soft bigotry of low expectations.'
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.
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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.
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Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.
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I got through college.
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There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
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I have always been interested in design, but in the beginning I didn't set out to make jewelry specifically.
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If I had to live my life over, I'd live over a saloon.
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I look for someone whose upbringing was somewhat similar to mine because they can understand me - love for the family and everything else. You see someone's relationship with their parents, and you realize what that person's going to be like as a parent.
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I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
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Polo is a great thing to do with your kids and your family - it is a great day out. And to me, horses are amazing creatures that give you this cable to Earth and put you in contact with nature.
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I'd like to stay in Chicago, but if they don't want me, somebody will.
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People want you to fail.
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We live in a homogenized world, where it's hard to get excited when everything is slick and professional. The interesting things are the dull things.
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All too willingly man sees himself as the centre of the universe, as something not belonging to the rest of nature but standing apart as a different and higher being. Many people cling to this error and remain deaf to the wisest command ever given by a sage, the famous 'Know thyself' inscribed in the temple of Delphi.
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It was growing dusk, the blue hour when solid things take on a certain transparency and phantoms become palpable.
