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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If I could choose any car in the world, I'd get a Lamborghini, but I think that's a bit too much money. I'll start off with maybe a V8 or something.
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I wanna thank the German people for the incredible partnership that our countries have been able to establish all these years.
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Wherever you stand, be the Soul of that place.
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The universe is more than mere matter in motion. It and we were brought into being by a Creator who seeks our good.
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Our Lord Himself, I saw alone in him, both in his and my part of this Venerable Sacrament. For, Oh, Amabilia! How awful those words of unloosing, after thirty years of bondage! I felt as if my chains fell, as those of Saint Peter at the touch of the divine messenger. My God, what new scenes for my soul!
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It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves.
