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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I was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches.
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We have become a society where the artist is regarded as a self-indulgent superfluity, and the person who juggles stocks and shares is an essential part of the economy.
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So finally, I decided that the best response — the safest — was none at all.
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I think it is important to begin with a statement in your speech that grabs the attention of the audience. I try to make my opening line 15 words or less.
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Working with Danny Thomas was truly an adventure every week. Danny didn't always say the words as they appeared in the script. I learned more by osmosis than by sitting down together. He was a force to be reckoned with: an explorer of television.
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Words are everything and don't you forget it, ever.
