Ralph Ellison Quotes
It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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Something about 'Battlestar' that I didn't realize when I took the job was this whole bubble aspect of closing people in and seeing what they do.
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Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone... the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their own way.
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Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.
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Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.
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LeBron James needs to go to another team with two superstars already so he can win a championship.
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One thing I love about Christmas music is that it has a tradition of warmth.
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The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.
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I'd done an EP, and nothing came from that, and I didn't know where to go from there.
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Music is a passion of mine. I'm always listening, always learning.
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I like to call it 'album making' because everybody hears the word scrapbooking and thinks, 'All the glue and the glitter - I don't have time for that!'
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Many hooligans discover to their shame that they have scruples; they have roots and, greatest disadvantage of all, they have hope. The fathers superior of the order do not try to influence their children in Satan; they merely shake their heads in sorrow. They know that the apostate must work out his own damnation.
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History is much more the product of chaos than of conspiracy.
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No book had ever really hinted of it, though the deathless Chinamen said that there were double meanings in the Necronomicon of the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred which the initiated might read as they chose, especially the much-discussed couplet:
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«Sometimes the best decision is to make no decision, which is also to make a decision.»
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To be true to ourselves, we must be true to others. We will not behave in foreign places so as to violate our rules and standards here at home, for we know that the trust which our Nation earns is essential to our strength.
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I came to art because I wanted to escape the other regulations of the society. The whole society is so political. But the irony is that my art becomes more and more political.
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I'm scared of everything. I think it's only sensible to be that way.
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A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
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Let us sit and mock the good housewife Fortune from her wheel, that her gifts may henceforth be bestowed equally, I would we could do so for her benefits are mightily misplaced and the bountiful blind girl doth most mistake in her gifts to women. 'Tis true for those that she makes fair she scarce makes honest and those that she makes honest she makes very ill-favouredly. Nay, now thou goest from Fortunes office to Natures. Fortune reigns in gifts of the world, not in the lineaments of Nature.
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I used to want to pack as much as I could into my life, but now I realize it's more about quality of life than quantity.
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It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves.
