Ralph Ellison Quotes
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Every good movie I watch, the hero becomes my favourite. I start blushing every time a hero romances a heroine.
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It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.
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For me, my number one Hollywood role model is Jennifer Lopez.
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We tend in this country to talk about Democrats and Republicans, and think there's little group over there called Independents that's maybe 2%. That is not the case, and it has not been the case for most of modern American history.
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
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I'm one of those crazy people, if I'm watching the trailer for a movie and I'm really excited by it, I'll turn it off because I don't want to know anything. I want to be surprised because I love that more than knowing anything.
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The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.
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Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
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Collective states are constitutionally incapable of reliably producing anything but corpses.
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With every project you do, you bring out a part of yourself, and it seems to be quite a good way of expanding a person.
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Gandalf the Grey was always the guy I prefer. Gandalf the White was driven to do a particular job, whereas Gandalf the Grey is a bit more humane.
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We should change the current economic system dominated by big business groups to a one where small and medium-sized enterprises develop together.
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A drop of honey can catch more flies than a gallon of gall.
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With just enough of learning to misquote.
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The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greatest part of skill, dexterity, and judgment with which it is any where directed, or applied, seem to have been the effects of the division of labour.
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I journal at the end of every day and just keep track of how things are going.
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You know, I became a director out of necessity. I was writing comedies, and I couldn't find anybody to deliver it correctly.
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Art is a lie that makes us realise truth ... that is given us to understand.
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The way I see it, we're pushing each other. Sharing information is good because it's going to make both cars better. I think our team and the way it works is the right chemistry and the right combination, and we're looking to keep doing the right thing.
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If there is one word that describes the meaning of character, it is the word honor. Without honor, civilization would not long exist. Without honor, there could be no dependable contracts, no lasting marriages, no trust or happiness. What does the word honor mean to you? To me, honor is summarized in this expression by the poet Tennyson, "Man's word of honor is God in man."
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Woman learns to hate to the extent to which her charms decrease.
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There are so many remarkable playwrights working right now, that I see everything I can. Annie Baker is a genius, I'll see anything she writes. The same for Lynn Nottage, Cynthia Hopkins, and Lisa D'Amour. Anything they've got going on, I'll go see.
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But we are all human, I thought, wondering what I meant.
