Walter Mosley Quotes
My father's life was so decimated by his earliest experiences. His mother died when he was 7 years old, which he always said was the worst experience in his life. When he was 8, his father disappeared and he was on his own from the age of 8.
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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The duty of the media is to observe truth and social responsibility.
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I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.
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I speak to you only as an American who happens to be an American Negro and one who is proud of that heritage. We ask for nothing special. We ask only that we be permitted to compete on an even basis, and if we are not worthy, then the competition shall, per se, eliminate us.
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A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.
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With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
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I have lots of passions - gardens, art, music and reading. I have eclectic taste and read a huge variety of books.
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Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.
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I'm not the type to lay out on the beach, but I do love to work out outside, and that can really take a toll on your skin!
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I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't telling them what I was going through.
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I don't think we can go back to the old days. But I think that what the government needs to do is it needs to make sure that the pricing is fair, that you don't have monopolies out there, so that people don't have a chance to compete fairly.
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Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!
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Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.
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I love what I do, so it's not tiring. If I worked at a computer or drove a truck, I'd be dead in a week.
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You have to stay on top and learn from mistakes.
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I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.
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We are anthill men upon an anthill world.
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I woke up on the plane this morning and was turning on my phone and I had to put my pin number in. That's when I realized that since the age of 10 I've been using 2012 as my pin number. But now that I've won gold in the 2012 Olympics, I've achieved that goal and, for the first time in 14 years, I'll have to change my pin.
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And that was only one of the many occasions on which I met my death, an experience which I never hesitate strongly to recommend.
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I measure success depending on the brands that come to you, the opportunities that you get, also the feedback that you get from people.
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It is often in the audacity, in the steadfastness, of the general that the safety and the conservation of his men is found.
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My father's life was so decimated by his earliest experiences. His mother died when he was 7 years old, which he always said was the worst experience in his life. When he was 8, his father disappeared and he was on his own from the age of 8.
