Ralph Ellison Quotes
What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?
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Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.
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I don't like the blame game, though.
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What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
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It's one of the greatest festivals in the world. New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Fest is the best all-around... It's an honor to be closing it.
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Kim Jong Un came in as a fresh face, so I think there's a great disappointment that he's playing the same game as his father.
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I personally don't think you should ever date someone you work with, will work with, etc. I won't ever date an actor.
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Yeah, I'm from Jersey; it's almost like I was automatically born a Nets fan.
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If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.
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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
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We've never been anti-Semitic.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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I thought what would be really just choice for a revamp and a reboot is 'The Greatest American Hero.' I think I'd be just that kind of perfect not prepared for this kind of thing, but thrust into circumstances he's not prepared for... that's another niche of mine. Unpreparedness. Not knowing what to do. I'm good at being that guy.
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I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.
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People want you to fail.
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Everything I do is blown out of proportion. It really hurts my feelings.
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I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.
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And a friend of mine in the Christys, we used to sit up at night and talk and read and wonder if reincarnation, and if it wasn't reality, what would happen to the human spirit when the body dies? Is there an afterlife? Just questions like that.
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David Lynch helped me be cool.
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I'm, like, everybody's friend. I'm one of those dudes. I can be friends with anybody. Any race of person, any personality, I can kind of deal with them. I accept different types of people.
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I tell people this: It's hard to write about walking in the park, but it's easy to write about a breakup.
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The man who in view of gain thinks of righteousness; who in the view of danger is prepared to give up his life; and who does not forget an old agreement however far back it extends - such a man may be reckoned a complete man.
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What's happened at 85 is I've lost my appetite. I used to be a little hog when I was young. But now I really don't seem to need it.
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I was just a music lover who wondered what it would sound like if Otis Redding strapped on a guitar and played in a punk band. That's it.
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What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?
