R. A. Schwaller Quotes
Can it really be said that before the day of our pretentious science, humanity was composed solely of imbeciles and the superstitious?
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Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.
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Up until the end of the Bush Administration, there was indifference to the North Korean suffering under Kim Jong-Il.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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Cloud services cut both ways in terms of security: you get off-site backup and disaster recovery, but you entrust your secrets to somebody else's hands. Doing the latter increases your exposure to government surveillance and the potential for deliberate or inadvertent breaches of your confidential files.
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Every hero becomes a bore at last.
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I wanted to be a 150% entrepreneur and a 150% mom, and I found that I was having a very hard time doing both. I was about 75% and 75% - still better than 100%, but not what I was accustomed to at work.
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Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
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He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be harmed by anyone.
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Brandon Boyd of Incubus is hot, but he's too pretty.
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There is no point in pointing fingers because there are three fingers pointing back at you.
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When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
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It's a coincidence that most of the films I have done are to do with social causes.
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I love to learn, and at some level, there's something to learn from my books. And I love art and philosophy, so there's something philosophical about my fiction.
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I think it's certainly natural to try new things as you grow up and get older!
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There are varieties of Spanglish. There's Spanglish spoken by Cuban Americans in Miami called cubonics is different from Mexican American Spanglish, but thanks to the Internet, thanks to radio and television, thanks to what is happening in the classrooms, in the streets in the restaurants, we are finding a middle ground.
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I was watching the Danish version of 'The Killing' when I got the audition for 'The Fall,' and I loved it; it was so original. I approached 'The Fall' with that in mind. I'd no problem with the violence - it was very clear from the script how horrifying the crimes were and that had to be shown, without going to extremes.
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At comedy festivals, we always get grouped with other musical comedians, so you can get to know them and see what everyone is doing. it's really fun and awesome that we're the only girls, because we can tackle issues that guys can't sing about.
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We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us.
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'...neither tolerance nor intolerance is grounded in science and reason, but they are themselves acts of faith grounded in social custom and the politics of expediency and power.'
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It is easy to be just when our own inclinations do not oppose it.
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Critics have a job to do. They do not criticise you without reason.
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Sometimes, you might meet somebody that you love that's turning into a 'they.' My key is invite them to Miami and take them to the ocean and let them jump off the boat in the ocean, on the sand bar, and cleanse off and pray and then go take a shower, and hopefully the 'they' is out of you.
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I have known Tavis Smiley since the 1980s, when we both worked at the same radio station in Los Angeles. He is smart, and he is a gentleman who has accorded me great respect both on and off the air.
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Can it really be said that before the day of our pretentious science, humanity was composed solely of imbeciles and the superstitious?
