Nadezhda Mandelstam Quotes
When a bull is being lead to the slaughter, it still hopes to break loose and trample its butchers. Other bulls have not been able to pass on the knowledge that this never happens and that from the slaughterhouse there is no way back to the herd. But in human society there is a continuous exchange of experience. I have never heard of a man who broke away and fled while being led to his execution. It is even thought to be a special form of courage if a man about to be executed refuses to be blindfolded and dies with his eyes open. But I would rather have the bull with his blind rage, the stubborn beast who doesn't weigh his chances of survival with the prudent dull-wittedness of man, and doesn't know the despicable feeling of despair.
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I'd like to meet a lovely man who shares my interests. On the other hand, I possibly will not. It's part of the hand you're dealt. It's a challenge-and I'm not atypical.
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
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The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
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All the women in my family are very dramatic by themselves. They make the biggest things out of nothing. I think that's where I learned a lot about being emotional.
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A man's got to do what a man's got to do. A woman must do what he can't.
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Thoughts are fine when you don't confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.
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As the great grandchildren of the industrial revolution, we have learned, at last, that the heedless pursuit of more is unsustainable and, ultimately, unfulfilling. Our planet, our security, our sense of equanimity and our very souls demand something better, something different.
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I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums.
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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A lot of fighters come from Brazil. We've been doing this for long, long years.
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If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.
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I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.
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There's nobody that's ever really been able to take care of me. Johnny did for a bit. I believed what he said. Like if I said, 'What do I do?' he'd tell me. And that's what I missed when I left. I really lost that gauge of somebody I could trust.
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I am a victim-oriented person. I like to see that the victims know that they have a voice.
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Typically, a book is published and gets one season in the sun. Eventually, you write another book, and maybe your old books get a bump, but my books seem to keep being discovered and recommended to new people of all ages.
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Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenager, the age that my books are aimed at.
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My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
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One of my other nicknames was Thomas Edison, because I invented so many moves.
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Good-looking people turn me off. Myself included.
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Call a man 'ignorant,' and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.
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No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
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I really had a problem with being 'the man.' I'm past it now, but that was my insecurity. I ran from that. I was cool with being No. 3 on the call sheet or No. 2.
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When a bull is being lead to the slaughter, it still hopes to break loose and trample its butchers. Other bulls have not been able to pass on the knowledge that this never happens and that from the slaughterhouse there is no way back to the herd. But in human society there is a continuous exchange of experience. I have never heard of a man who broke away and fled while being led to his execution. It is even thought to be a special form of courage if a man about to be executed refuses to be blindfolded and dies with his eyes open. But I would rather have the bull with his blind rage, the stubborn beast who doesn't weigh his chances of survival with the prudent dull-wittedness of man, and doesn't know the despicable feeling of despair.
