Ralph Ellison Quotes
I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.
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You can't talk of the dangers of snake poisoning and not mention snakes.
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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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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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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 must continue to step in and stand up to resist reckless rhetoric and actions in a peaceful and forceful manner.
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Statesmen remember things selectively.
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I try not to confuse roles and traits in my own life. Being the Perl god is a role. Being a stubborn cuss is a trait.
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A luminous body will appear more brilliant in proportion as it is surrounded by deeper shadow.
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Contemporary art and the Communist Party are an impossible situation. It’s like oil and water-they can never mix.
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Because his task was not finished, I felt that I must re-dedicate myself to the completion of his work.
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Truth is, I've always been selling out. The difference is that in the past, I looked like I had integrity because there were no buyers.
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There's a perception that police are less likely to do the marginal additional policing that suppresses crime: the getting out of your car at 2 in the morning and saying to a group of guys, 'What are you doing here?'
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I encourage women to wear color, wear stripes, wear sequins - just wear what makes you feel confident and strong. If it looks good and fits well, you'll look great and feel great, too.
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I'm smart but not enough--just smart enough to have problems.
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Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
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The novelist loses, every time. Politics is insidious, the modern conduct of war (from shoulder-launched rockets to drone strikes) is insidious. Someone presses a button in California and twenty people are incinerated at a wedding in Pakistan. The killer is spared the sight of the corpses.
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I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.
