Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) Quotes
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We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids.
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When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.
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I'm glad we turned into a big-time touring band later in life. In fact, it's almost like we planned it out that way.
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But eventually it is a game of cricket.
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Living in Malibu is like being in a bubble, so discovering others that are so different from me has been incredibly gratifying.
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If I win the gold medal, I will be set for the rest of my life. The medal itself doesn't give you anything, but it makes you a marketable item. You take it and see what you can do.
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I love music. I still play cello a few times a week.
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Having children is exciting. Life puts the past into perspective.
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We Christians should be aware that there's something at stake in cultural participation that we wouldn't have been concerned about if all we did was worry about the messages in culture.
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Don't take things too seriously, and just chill.
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I wanted to be as authentic as possible because, first of all, Jean Shrimpton is still alive. And, she's interesting enough to be played accurately. I didn't need to add things.
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Luckily, there is a wind of change happening in Hindi cinema. Good work is coming to people who are not conventionally good looking like Ranbir Kapoor or Akshay Kumar.
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I'm training once a day, four days a week, and just loving life.
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The life of Lord Krishna has been misunderstood by many Western commentators. Scriptural allegory is baffling to literal minds. A hilarious blunder by a translator will illustrate this point. The story concerns an inspired medieval saint, the cobbler Ravidas, who sang in the simple terms of his own trade of the spiritual glory hidden in all mankind:
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In every government there must be somewhat fundamental, somewhat like a Magna Charta, that should be standing and unalterable... that parliaments should not make themselves perpetual is a fundamental.
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All things are the same,-familiar in enterprise, momentary in endurance, coarse in substance. All things now are as they were in the day of those whom we have buried.
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205. If the true is what is grounded, then the ground is not true, nor yet false.
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No writing has any real value which is not the expression of genuine thought and feeling. (20 December 1939)
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The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
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Speak your heart. If they don't understand, the message was never meant for them anyway.
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In all of us, there is a struggle between the good and the bad. It makes it more palpable and real to play such people as an actor.
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I love to hand sew. I sometimes make clothing for my children, which of course they grow out of in a matter of minutes. I thoroughly love it.
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After I handed over all my authority, I feel now our struggle [for Tibet ] become much, much safer. And me personally, the day I officially handed over, that night, very unusual sound. I am quite free now.
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We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
