Haile Gerima Quotes
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I don't believe in luck. ... It's persistence, hard work, and not forgetting your dream.
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It’s as much a writer’s concern, who is responsible to his readers for all the books written before him as well as those which will be written after him.
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If we are to reach certainty and true autonomy of realization, we need to be willing to be heretics. What's more, we need to become universal heretics, not believing anything that we do not know from direct experience, beyond stories, beyond hearsay, and even beyond the mind.
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People find a sense of being, a sense of worth and substance being associated with land. Association with final roots gives us not only a history but proclaims us heirs to a future.
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A long association-prolonged human contact, when a man and woman live together-this ends up producing a sort of rot, a poison.
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Some of the subject matter is a little less weighty. When we were writing for Mr. Show, we were talking about how is this going to stand up to the test of time. Every little piece had to be this brilliant comedy jewel.
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She remembered how she had felt cleaning out her father's clothes, wanting at once to hold on to every dirty handkerchief and musty page of sheet much, and yet wishing she were anywhere else on earth, free of it all.
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You are positive, creative and happy to the degree to which you eliminate negative emotions from your life.
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Making ski racing fun and engaging for kids and families is an exciting opportunity and a real passion of mine.
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A true servant of Mary cannot be lost.
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I take no credit at all. This is a talented team with a real desire to follow a specific style of play.
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I'll be 56 this year, I've got two kids, and I think it's probably time to go back to writing one-glove jokes.
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'Yogi Bear' changed my life in ways that I can't explain because it's not a full feature on me. 'Yogi Bear' – there's everything before 'Yogi Bear,' and there's everything after 'Yogi Bear.' Like a major car accident, or the birth of Christ.
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Throughout my formal education I spent many, many hours in public and school libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were. The current definitive answer to almost any question can be found within the four walls of most libraries.
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Throughout their lives, women try to pummel their bodies into some phantom ideal shape that exists only with a lot of airbrushing. ... I don't blame men for this. Men seem to go for us no matter what size and shape we are. I blame capitalism. No, really. The consumer must constantly be in a state of anxious low self-esteem so that she will constantly buy lipsticks and girdles to make her feel cuter.
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May Allah bless the man who says less and does more.
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The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in God. The new religion says that he is the atheist who does not believe in himself.
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When the system does not recognize me I'm not devastated.
