Sun Ra Quotes
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Strict conservation of energy in the elementary process had thus been confirmed also by a negative experiment.
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I was the first actress who branded her own line at a time when everyone just lent their name to a product. Everyone said I shouldn't do it, but it was probably the best thing I've ever done.
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I'd never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being there, the crowd was lovely, and they all sang with me!
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I think about terrorism in terms of popcorn. You can't tell which kernels are popcorn and which are not, but you assume you'll always have some kernels that are going to pop.
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I'm just trying to work out how to write music now, because I've never had the opportunity where my number-one priority is writing music. I don't know how my brain works yet.
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The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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As a Marine officer in combat, I was responsible for the lives and safety of all the Marines who served with me.
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I was 7 years old, and I challenged everything. I never accepted answers on face value.
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Everybody has to be responsible for their own actions - and if they do something wrong, I believe in paying for it.
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It's always overwhelming when you come to another country and you're embraced in such a positive way.
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I think I might have been a more interesting actor, had more of a career earlier on, if I had more formal preparation. When I see something ten years later that I was in I think, 'Boy, would I love to do that over.'
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You could make a case that women addicted men to their sexuality and then withdrew their sexuality until we provided them with a source of income.
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To speak of joy and to sing of it, borne on The shoulders of joyous men, to feel the heart That is the common, the bravest fundament, This is a facile exercise
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One says a lot in vain, refusing;The other mainly hears the 'No.'
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I think the likelihood of Hitler being able to accomplish his goals would have been greatly diminished if the people had been armed... I'm telling you there is a reason these dictatorial people take the guns first.
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I only can properly enjoy carol services if I am having an illicit affair with someone in the congregation. Why is this? Perhaps because they are essentially pagan, not Christian, celebrations.
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So mourn'd the dame of Ephesus her love,And thus the soldier arm'd with resolutionTold his soft tale, and was a thriving wooer.
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What might the world look like if we took some chances on the film-makers we might be afraid of?
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I am a feminist. I reject wholeheartedly the way we are taught to perceive women. The beauty of women, how a woman should act or behave. Women are strong and fragile. Women are beautiful and ugly. We are soft-spoken and loud, all at once. There is something mind-controlling about the way we're taught to view women.
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We seem, as a culture, to start to adhere to these antiheroes and have grown tired of the traditional, straight-up-and-down good guy.
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I'm not trying to get approval from anyone else. No one's approval matters to me - what matters is making myself happy for myself and no one else. And if I look good to someone else, I hope they take me as inspiration or whatever they want.
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I still have the art projects my kids made for me 20 years ago. I cherish them, crude and silly as some of them may be.
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If death is the absence of life, then death's death is life.
