Ralph Ellison Quotes
I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.
Quotes to Explore
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You can't talk of the dangers of snake poisoning and not mention snakes.
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Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.
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I like things simple.
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As his talent expands, some of his stories become pointed social commentary; some are surprisingly effective religious tracts, disguised as science fiction. Others still are nostalgic vignettes, but under it all is still Bradbury, the poet of 20th-century neurosis.
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Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.
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If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
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At the time I was writing the second album, I was sitting home in my underwear all day every day; I didn't have all that much to write about except for my own life and my family.
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It's very tempting to have a nanny and live in a gated community and have a chef - I'd love to have a few dinners cooked for me. But I don't want that for my children. When they're older, if people say to them, 'Did you have a chef?' I want them to be shocked by the question.
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The United States is very good at understanding itself, and very bad at understanding others.
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To go back means defeat.
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Supreme Court arguments and decisions are fascinating to a few of us and really pretty boring to most.
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Honestly, I'm not a massive fan of courtroom dramas.
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To grow, people need to be challenged.
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I filed the first gay rights bill in Massachusetts history in 1972 in the legislature, one of the first in the country.
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I'm Valentino Rossi. And I want to be a person, not an icon.
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There are lots of women tennis players, for instance, but because not many of them seem to have much personality, they're interchangeable. You don't have a feeling about them.
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Poverty is a solved problem - all they have to do is abolish taxes and regulations which cripple those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women and destroy their productive capacity, then stand back and watch the economy boom.
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My personal view is that organisations have a capacity to throw up extraordinary leaders to suit the occasion.
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We are not occupying Afghanistan, we are there as guests of a government, at their request.
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I never was content unless I was trying my skill...or testing my endurance.
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We need to talk about what we are going to do and see and decide. We'll have to wait and see.
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The ancient Greeks and Romans were comfortable with any number of deities and were quite open to allowing conquered nations to continue to worship in whatever ways they saw fit, as long as they didn't mind having an emperor who required taxes and tributes.
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These days, information is a commodity being sold. And designers-including the newly defined subset of information designers and information architects-have a responsible role to play. We are interpreters, not merely translators, between sender and receiver. What we say and how we say it makes a difference. If we want to speak to people, we need to know their language. In order to design for understanding, we need to understand design.
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I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.
