Ralph Ellison Quotes
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My attitude is govern as if you've run your last race. That's not to say I've run my last race, but govern with a liberation and a freedom; change your mind frame to operate that way.
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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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Everything can be satirized.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.
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I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.
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I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father was deeply religious and my mother was not.
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I think, especially living in L.A., it's very easy to get wrapped up in weekend announcements and the trades and the whole social life of the city, and to get divorced from what actually matters.
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I put so much of myself out there and make myself so accessible that sometimes I fear I make myself too accessible.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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I'm not any kind of a bigot, I'm not.
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The Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it's two years, five years, ten or fifteen. And say it's a good thing.
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Ever since I was little, I would just make stories up in my mind. It was based on people I saw in the street or someone I would talk to, or I would hear a specific voice.
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I remember seeing 'Gremlins' and having my mind blown and seeing 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' at 13, and it was this hugely aspirational experience.
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Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
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My goal in creating Geek & Sundry was to create a community based around web video, and we've accomplished that, especially on our budget.
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I can't hold a grudge anyway.
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Trump is a really complicated story and a difficult candidate to write about.
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It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
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Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians.
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Women who have it all should try having nothing: I have no husband, no children, no real estate, no stocks, no bonds, no investments, no 401(k), no CDs, no IRAs, no emergency fund - I don't even have a savings account. It's not that I have not planned for the future; I have not planned for the present.
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Words, especially when yelled in anger, can be very damaging to a child's self-confidence. The child probably already feels bad enough just from seeing the consequences of his or her behavior. Our sons and daughters don't need more guilt and self-doubt heaped upon their already wounded egos.
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Words are everything and don't you forget it, ever.
