Vine Deloria, Jr. Quotes
The future of mankind lies waiting for those who will come to understand their lives and take up their responsibilities to all living things.
 
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	I would like all French children to have unlimited opportunities opened up for them as French minister of education.   
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	I was born and raised in Manhattan; I didn't realize that I, in all my androgyny, was a freak to the rest of this country.   
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	What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.   
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	I am going to put money into education at the expense of other programs.   
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	At key crossroads in his life, Vernon Davis has continued to make a conscious choice to grow as a person and player. His determination through adversity since his childhood days is commendable.   
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	Relatively, a very small percentage of betting takes place on hockey and even baseball because of the nature of the game and the scoring.   
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	The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don't have to work hard.   
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	The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.   
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	If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.   
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	There's been a big buzz about the Charlatans in the last couple of years. I've heard the word Charlatans more in the last few years than I'd heard it for the previous 20 years. People would interview me for years and never even mention the Charlatans.   
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	The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.   
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	My dream was always to win in the Olympic Games, but I never set that next goal, and I have realised now I need to set another goal.   
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	I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.   
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	I made a decision when I was in school that I'd have a lot of male friends.   
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	'Transformers' was important and defining for me because it taught me about what kinds of movies I want to make and the kind of actor I want to be, and I have a long way to go before I become that actor.   
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	A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.   
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	Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural.   
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	My father worked, and my mother played bridge. Every time I went out of the house, I was chauffeur-driven with my nanny next to me to stop me being kidnapped.   
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	If someone is sad, they put on a song, or if someone wants to rock out, and they want to get into a good mood, they put on music. Just being able to be a part of something like that I feel like was my ultimate push to do music.   
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	Nature formed me fierce.   
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	A lot of people had a misconception that I would be the perfect poster child for Islam. So I got a lot of Instagram comments like, 'Oh, you don't have your neck covered, you're not a Muslim!' My thing is, stop judging women, especially if you're a man, because you don't know the responsibility that comes with wearing a hijab.   
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	God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos: He will set them above their betters.   
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	If I were put into a college lecture hall right now and told to pay attention for 45 minutes, it would be physically impossible for me to do. I'm one of those people who believe that ADD is a gift. It's tough to manage, but if you can harness it you can do great things.   
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	The future of mankind lies waiting for those who will come to understand their lives and take up their responsibilities to all living things.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					