Ralph Ellison Quotes
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Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.
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Extraordinary allegations require extraordinary evidence.
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When I'm alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument.
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Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.
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Never trust a hippie. That's definitely my motto.
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In college, I wanted to be a child psychologist. Acting was just something on the side to make money. And it was fun.
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It was just this interesting, my first, the first time you hear your child in any way criticise you. It's the worst review of your life and it's really relieving to find out that they don't know what they're saying.
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The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.
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As a drama student I got into Thirties and Forties suits.
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I'm a great believer in chaos. I don't believe that you start with a formula and then you fulfill the formula. Chaos is a much better instigator, because we live in chaos - we don't live in a rigorous form.
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I stopped caring so much about what people might think if I sung about love and humanity.
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Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
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Yeah, I think that his great creation was not any one product but a company in which creativity was connected to great engineering. And that will survive at least while the current people who trained under Steve are there.
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In America, when you bring an idea to market, you usually have several months before competition pops up, allowing you to capture significant market share. In China, you can have hundreds of competitors within the first hours of going live. Ideas are not important in China - execution is.
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And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we've made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it.
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I think the first and principle objective is to repeal Obamacare before it does lasting, fundamental damage to our health care system, to our individual liberty, to the relationship each of us has with his or her doctor.
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Having passion does not mean you have to descend into bickering and fighting.
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When eventually I started to act a bit more, I realised that circus school had taught me something that a lot of actors my age didn't have: physicality. They didn't know how to move. Acting is not all about talking. There is something animalistic about it.
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For me, the hardest thing in the world is how to start a book.
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It is not the imitation that makes sons; it is sonship that makes imitators.
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If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
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...to hell with being ashamed of what you liked.
