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.
Rahm Emanuel -
A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
Ovid -
Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
E. Stanley Jones -
Everything can be satirized.
Sam Kinison -
The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
Harriet Ann Jacobs -
I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.
Daniel Barenboim
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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.
Daniel Cormier -
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.
Dani Shapiro -
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.
Damien Chazelle -
I put so much of myself out there and make myself so accessible that sometimes I fear I make myself too accessible.
Halsey -
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
W. Somerset Maugham -
I'm not any kind of a bigot, I'm not.
Samuel Alito
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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.
Abdullah II of Jordan -
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.
Harmony Korine -
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.
Edgar Wright -
Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
Walt Alston -
Art is born of humiliation.
W. H. Auden -
If we could have seen through the televisions, we would probably have seen many a child grow up.
Barbara Hale
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Every once in a while, I would say, 'I don't want to do this anymore,' and I would go back to third grade, and after six months, I'd say, 'OK, I'm bored. Let's go make a movie.'
Gaby Hoffmann -
I was able to make many different kinds of movies. They enriched me on many different levels.
Andrew Lau -
We're so trendy we can't even escape ourselves.
Kurt Cobain Nirvana -
A poet, qua poet, has only one political duty, namely, in his own writing to set an example of the correct use of his mother tongue, which is always being corrupted. When words lose their meaning, physical force takes over.
W. H. Auden -
No carelessness in your actions. No confusion in your words. No imprecision in your thoughts. (Hays translation)
Marcus Aurelius -
Words are everything and don't you forget it, ever.
Ralph Ellison