Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) Quotes
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Honestly speaking, I don't like my films. When I watch them, I see a lot of scope for improvement, so if I were to see any of my films, like 'Dhoom,' I might say... 'It would have been better if...' or 'had it been...' and this is all about evolving.
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A month alone would make me so happy. Not good for my dating prospects.
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My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and chronicles a global trend towards putting on the brakes. That trend is called the Slow movement. 'Slow' in this context does not mean doing everything at a snail's pace. It means doing everything at the right speed.
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I love a cool bralette paired with a high-waisted jean, maybe with Chanel suspenders and a good platform shoe.
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You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.
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I was hiding behind athletics and all my jockitude, so I didn't have to deal with being ostracized as the weird art kid.
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To say that Jimmy Carter does not understand politics or is not a good politician denies the phenomenon by which he got to the White House. He is without question the best politician, when he's working at it, of anybody I have ever seen.
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How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema.
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She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
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My father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money. Then I won a Mercedes at the world championships and I gave it to him. From the moment it arrived my father said: 'Good, you can support not just yourself but me too'.
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It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode.
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I listen to a lot of jazz. I'm a big Sinatra geek. I love Chet Baker.
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We can fight over what the taxation levels should be, but the tax system should be very, very simple and not distortionary.
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There has to be room for people to make mistakes and lead their own lives.
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I like to do yoga, Pilates, dance, and things like that.
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I see flaws as a kind of beauty.
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That professionalism comes from what I've watched people do on the set. I'm just trying to be as respectful to the environment, as they have been. I think I still act like a kid. I just try to be as professional as I can.
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A pocket square must always - always - be white and a bit wild. If it is too prepared, it is tacky.
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Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.
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None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.
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The way we live ought to manifest the truth of what we believe. A messy life speaks of a messy and incoherent faith.
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Woman makes half the sorrows which she boasts the privilege to sooth. Woman consoles us, it is true, while we are young and handsome; when we are old and ugly, woman snubs and scolds us. On the whole, then, woman in this scale, the weed in that. Jupiter! Hang out thy balance, and weigh them both; and if thou give the preference to woman, all I can say is, the next time Juno ruffles thee, O Jupiter, try the weed.
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My song 'Play It Again' is a perfect example of my music because the verses go so hard, and they're so urban; and then this pop hook comes out of nowhere and socks you in the face and makes you want to dance.
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Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
