Ralph Ellison Quotes
Everywhere I've turned somebody has wanted to sacrifice me for my good-only they were the ones who benefited. And now we start on the old sacrificial merry-go-round. At what point do we stop?
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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I don't know what it's like in the U.S. but immigrants in the U.K. do the jobs the citizens won't do.
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I think at first the Flume project really started out as an online thing. I used Facebook and SoundCloud, and I think we got lucky because it felt like a bit of a golden age of those social media platforms. So I managed to create quite a solid fan base online.
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It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.
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I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
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It was a matter of survival for the local people, but it was the most violent scene I have ever witnessed. The people in my group, feeling helpless, were all spellbound and aghast at the same time. I became a vegetarian shortly after that.
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I can speak French, understand Gaelic and know my history. That's the training music has given me.
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I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career.
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Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one - but there is a price.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.
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'Bruce Lee' didn't work, and there were apprehensions about what the fans might say. People might have commented that Charan could have waited for some time before selecting me again. But that's what makes it a real achievement to me. People want to work with me because of the comfort level; nobody would work with you again otherwise.
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Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
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Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
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We happen to be the vanguard of that revolutionary struggle because we are the most dispossessed.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
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So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you.
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Sisters have ways of socializing brothers into the mysteries of girls. Brothers have ways of socializing sisters into the puzzle that is boys.
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There is no way that the Fourth Gospel was written by John Zebedee or by any of the disciples of Jesus. The author of this book is not a single individual, but is at least three different writers/editors, who did their layered work over a period of 25 to 30 years.
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I want to be strong. I want to be able to hit people. I want people to be able to bounce off me. When I go out there and play, I play to intimidate people. If someone gets hit down by me, they're going to think twice about coming near me again.
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I believe honor thy mother and father is not just a good commandment to live by, it is good public policy to govern by. That is why I feel so strongly about Medicare.
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That kid who lives in the projects, he has a self-esteem problem - everybody looks down on him. He may be a good kid, but other parents don't want their kids to be with them because percentages say they could be bad. I went through a lot of that.
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Everywhere I've turned somebody has wanted to sacrifice me for my good-only they were the ones who benefited. And now we start on the old sacrificial merry-go-round. At what point do we stop?
