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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The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose.
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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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The thing about Iceland is that we are trapped there anyway, all of us. We have been trapped there for thousands of years.
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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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There's a point you get to on the stage where you're not remembering lines but living them, and you reach this pure moment which, really, is more intense than what you can achieve in life.
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How many questions arise in this place! Constantly the question comes up: Where was God in those days? Why was he silent? How could he permit this endless slaughter, this triumph of evil? ... We must continue to cry out humbly yet insistently to God: Rouse yourself! Do not forget mankind, your creature!
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All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me.
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When you're the best, and you know you're the best, and your contemporaries know you're the best, that's a terrific edge.
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There's nobody in the world I wouldn't fight.
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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?
