Hilary Beckles Quotes
The Caribbean calls upon the enslaving governments of Europe and their national institutions, all enriched and empowered by their crimes against humanity, to return to the region in order to participate in cleaning up their colonial mess.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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I've set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling.
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It is not known, now, for what length of time the Tuatha de Danaan had the sway over Ireland, and it is likely it was a long time they had it, but they were put from it at last.
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I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man or any of that. I'm a character actor.
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The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body.
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If you're a Republican woman, you're mostly on your own when it comes to support from traditional women's groups.
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I'm very lucky in the sense that I've got a voice that's distinctive. Not good, but distinctive. That's a very useful thing to have in this business. I'm glad on the one hand that I've got it, but I wish it was more powerful. I wish I had a greater range. I wish it was more accurate at times.
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The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color.
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God drove Cain out of his presence and sent him into exile far away from his native land, so that he passed from a life of human kindness to one which was more akin to the rude existence of a wild beast.
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No one - absolutely no one - is above the law.
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Nothing can alter the character of God. In the course of a human life, tastes and outlook and temper may change radically: a kind, equable man may turn bitter and crotchety: a man of good-will may grow cynical and callous. But nothing of this sort happens to the Creator. He never becomes less truthful, or merciful, or just, or good, than He used to be.
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Como se reparten el sol en el naranjo las naranjas? How do the oranges divide up sunlight in the orange tree?
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The truth can both lift up and knock down.
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In heaven we are all ghostwriters, if we write at all.
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I may have got (Paul) Waner out, but I never fooled him.
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I started off as many fathers do. I enjoyed the good bits, but I was wary of the responsibility. But now I love being a dad.
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I am a diehard Seahawks fan because I'm born and raised in Seattle.
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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Back in the day, in '91 or so, I tried to interview Fugazi for Rolling Stone, which the band felt stood for everything they detested about corporate infiltration of music. They said, 'We'll do the interview if you give us a million dollars of cash in a suitcase.' Which was their way of saying no.
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The Caribbean calls upon the enslaving governments of Europe and their national institutions, all enriched and empowered by their crimes against humanity, to return to the region in order to participate in cleaning up their colonial mess.
