Ralph Ellison Quotes
The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
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I'd love to be 'People Magazine''s Sexiest Man Alive, but I think that that's a ways off. I have to stop wearing sweat pants, and then we'll work on that.
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I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.
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I kind of found a niche for myself after 'Firefly'. I found something that I enjoyed doing and that I did well, but as far as how I seek out a part, it's always different. It's always something that lights you on fire when you read it. It might be just one scene, it might be one line that defines the character for you.
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I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.
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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
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I do suspect that this world is hell.
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There are young idealists all around the world falling in love with the Yankees now and realists who are gravitating to the Red Sox. I think the universe is on its head.
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We think a modern cloud lets you decide when you want to upgrade. We don't decide for you.
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Looking back, the biggest mistake I made was feeling ashamed of it. Acne is a part of life. You don't need to be embarrassed of it.
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The only time I can't sleep is on a plane, when I am literally keeping it in the air with my brain.
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It is standard practice for corrupt leaders who are seeking a certain political outcome to hype or manipulate a terror threat or a threat of violent domestic subversion. While sometimes the threat is manufactured, frequently the hyped threat is based on a real danger.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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Sometimes a woman's looks or sensuality are too readily wrapped up in their power.
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.
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Old Etonians are the most charming people in the world. It's not just the analytic ability and the great education; there is a really easy confidence to them that draws people to them and makes their passage though the world a little easier.
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As a competitor, I want to continue to keep turning the chapters and keep challenging myself.
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Girls shouldn't drink because their bodies are not made for drinking and smoking.
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In the touch-based mobile device era, folks need to think of ways to have a single technology stack married to the ability to create unique experiences for different devices.
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Words mean what they're generally believed to mean. When Charles II saw Christopher Wren's St. Paul's Cathedral for the first time, he called it "awful, pompous, and artificial." Meaning roughly: Awesome, majestic, and ingenious.
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In Paris one is too preoccupied by what one sees and what one hears, however strong one is; what I am doing here has, I think, the merit of not resembling anyone, because it is simply the expression of what I myself have experienced.
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We are all slaves to the shining metal.
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The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
