Sun Ra Quotes
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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All politicians should have 3 hats - one to throw into the ring, one to talk through, and one to pull rabbits out of if elected.
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There needs to be a place in the church or just outside - there needs to be a place where people feel free to ask questions without being put upon, where they feel free to ask difficult, challenging questions to voice their skepticism.
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Breaking the world record in '92 was a very special personal moment, but I'd say my favorite moment as a decathlete was winning the Olympic gold medal. It was a lot of years of work, and when I won it, it was more a sense of relief than jubilation or exaltation.
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The most influential factor in selling a home is always price. Don't build 'wiggle room' into the asking price. There's a price war out there and you have to win it from the get-go.
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I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.
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They were conspiring to desert us in the night and steal some of our horses... we engaged a spy.
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When it is good, theatre takes a lot of beating both to watch and perform.
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Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.
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And then I graduate two years later, in 1998, with my class. And, since then I've been here in Houston for training basically. And I was very happy to be assigned to this mission.
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I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all!
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I never had an ambition to go into modeling, originally. I still can't believe how quickly it all took off.
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If a big number of young pupils felt secularism was an attack on them, it was because the term had been misused and deformed in the public debate for years by the extreme-right and the right as an attack on Islam. The term had often been misused to point out how Muslims were different to others, and that is clearly problematic.
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I am very interested in human-interest stories emerging from modern India. I get my inspiration and daily dose by reading the 'Hindustan Times.'
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Shall I, like an hermit, dwellOn a rock or in a cell?
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It has never been man’s gift to make wildernesses. But he can make deserts, and has.
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When I said, 'I feel like everything I tried to do is there', it is less because of what I did than it is a case of Michael keeping his word. Sometimes he'd launch into a discourse, a convoluted discourse about something or other, and I had no idea what he was saying. I'd tease him about it, 'What on earth are you talking about?'
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All men think all men mortal but themselves.
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If adventure has a final and all-embracing motive, it is surely this: we go out because it is our nature to go out, to climb mountains, and to paddle rivers, to fly to the planets and plunge into the depths of the oceans... When man ceases to do these things, he is no longer man.
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Flag desecration is not a constitutional issue for the courts. It is a political one that belongs to the people.
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I didn't know until high school that I was interested in writing in any real way. But there was this boy that I had a crush on, and I used to tell him all the time what I felt about him. Finally he gave me a blank journal and said to write it all down - and it didn't take me very long to realize how much I loved writing.
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What we should be doing is saving habitats, not single species, no matter what their cuteness factor.
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My work stops at publication. If the books don't contain in themselves their reasons for being - questions and answers - it means I was wrong to have them published.
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A world is in danger, this planet is in great danger!
