Vine Deloria, Jr. Quotes
Never has America lost a war ... But name, if you can, the last peace the United States won. Victory yes, but this country has never made a successful peace because peace requires exchanging ideas, concepts, thoughts, and recognizing the fact that two distinct systems of life can exist together without conflict. Consider how quickly America seems to be facing its allies of one war as new enemies.
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Years ago the public used to hound me but now I can go shopping in peace.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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Just because you're of the same sex, what difference does it make? Get married to whomever you want.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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I never been a hater of these other cats, who never really had nothing, being successful. That's not my problem.
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When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise. That is why people like me will ever be grateful to God. In terms of knowledge, education and name, I am nowhere - a neglected stone.
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If people don't want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?
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Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.
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I'm not the type of guy to go so deep with the concept songs, but there's deep thought in everything. Maybe it's not just a repetitive hook telling you what the song is about - you have to use your brain a little bit.
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You look at science fiction and look how often it talks about being alien, being alienated about the other. Look at the number of blue people - 'Avatar,' I'm looking at you. And it is now easier to find people of color in science-fiction literature and media, but the issues of representation are still really, really troubling.
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All of my main characters have been under 30.
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We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.
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Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
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Having a credible existence in the private sector frees people to be able to be better public servants. You're less concerned with... toeing the party line and more concerned with doing what is right.
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I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.
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Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.
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Scatter your flowers as you go; you will never go this way again.
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You hope, when you're working on these things, that people love them whether it makes a lot of money or not.
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Are you in my dream too?
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The military weapon is but one of the means that serve the purposes of war: one out of the assortment which grand strategy can employ.
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Never has America lost a war ... But name, if you can, the last peace the United States won. Victory yes, but this country has never made a successful peace because peace requires exchanging ideas, concepts, thoughts, and recognizing the fact that two distinct systems of life can exist together without conflict. Consider how quickly America seems to be facing its allies of one war as new enemies.
