Sun Ra Quotes
I’m not a prophet. I’m a destiny-changer. It’s all right to prophesy, but the best thing to do is change things, if you’ve got the power.
Quotes to Explore
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I like to dress for my body type and for my coloring.
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The niqab, for some, has become an antiestablishment symbol around which one can rally and relish in the opportunities for confrontation that it provides.
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Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
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Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
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Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.
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Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.
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A Constitution should be short and obscure.
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What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.
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I try and groom myself, be it through fitness or dance.
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The No. 1 cause of forest fires is trees.
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I am lactose intolerant, and I always thought it was really funny how people who are lactose intolerant continue to eat dairy, because they like it so much. And I find it not acceptable.
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There are stereotypes that have been out there for a long time that tell girls that their main asset, the main thing that they are valued for, is their appearance and also that it's to the exclusion of anything else.
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I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes.
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If you have twenty guys in the room and you just bring in one girl, you change the entire mood and everyone plays different.
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I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
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Acting is a form of confession.
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Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
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I love people that, in the face of falling off a cliff, still want to fight about something that happened five minutes ago, going, 'Now, you know I'm right about that,' even though they're facing imminent doom.
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The Arab awakening was driven by youth, organized by technology, and fired by a hunger for political change.
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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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Urban residents, most of them middle class, have a much better sense of their environmental rights, and they're willing to take to the streets.
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With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.
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I’m not a prophet. I’m a destiny-changer. It’s all right to prophesy, but the best thing to do is change things, if you’ve got the power.
