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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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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The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeletons of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life.
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By the time I was 19, punk had occurred. It had a completely different cultural dynamic to it which rejected everything and started again from the year zero.
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All shows need more twinks.
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I dream for a living.
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My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done.
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When you have kids, you can choose to make them like you, or become like them, and if you've got something that's going to change every six days or six minutes, you can decide to be as awake and alive and learning as they are.
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If death is the absence of life, then death's death is life.
