M. K. Asante Quotes
When you make an observation, you have an obligation.
M. K. Asante
Quotes to Explore
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I know that many authors say editors don't edit anymore, but that's not been true in my experience.
Victor LaValle
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It's important to study and understand your responsibilities within any profession, but it's particularly important for military officers to read, think, discuss, and write about the problem of war and warfare so they can understand not just the changes in the character of warfare but also the continuities.
H. R. McMaster
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Liberman said to me, 'I must cut back on the work you do for Vogue. The editors don't like it. They say the photographs burn on the page . After some years, I began to understand that what they wanted of me was simply a nice, sweet, clean-looking image of a lovely young woman.
Irving Penn
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She felt like a chess player who, by the clever handling of his pieces, sees the game taking the course intended. Her eyes were bright and tender with a smile as they glanced up into his; and her lips looked hungry for the kiss which they invited.
Kate Chopin
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I try to communicate in a way that allows people in on what's going on. What's better than references to popular culture?
Bart Chilton
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Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.
Patrick Ness
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No matter who you are, no matter what your culture is, it is absolutely possible to look out and extend yourself in such a way, that you can connect to other people and find that we are more alike than we are different.
Oprah Winfrey
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If we have the kinds of confirmation that we need, we will once again work with the international community and the organization charged with monitoring compliance by the Syrian government, and we will reach out to patrons of Assad like Russia to put a stop to it.
Barack Obama
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The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me.
Clara Barton
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It's where we're nearest to our humanness. Useless knowledge for its own sake. Useful knowledge is good, too, but it's for the faint-hearted, an elaboration of the real thing, which is only to shine some light, it doesn't matter where on what, it's the light itself, against the darkness, it's what's left of God's purpose when you take away God.
Tom Stoppard
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When we sin, Satan tells us we are lost. In contrast, our Redeemer offers redemption to all—no matter what we have done wrong—even to you and to me.
C. Scott Grow
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I have never taken a photograph without one thought in my head to amuse myself.
Jacques-Henri Lartigue
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I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly.
Paul Auster
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I have difficulty orienting myself in space, and I'm probably one of the few people who gets lost in Manhattan.
Paul Auster
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There did he sit shrivelled in his chimney corner, fretting on account of his weak legs, world weary, will weary, and one day he suffocated through his excessive pity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The curse of comic book adaptations, when I was younger, was that the director or producer would go, "Don't worry about it, it's just a comic book."
Len Wein
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New York is one of man's greatest achievements.
Edward Robb Ellis
