Sun Ra Quotes
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There are lots of people who haven't been to drama school who have great talent and can be discovered.
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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Music will always be my greatest passion.
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You can be revered for all sorts of qualities, but to be truly charismatic is rare. Elizabeth Taylor was, for me, one of those rarities.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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When I watch Rumble Johnson, he's a bully. He bullies guys. He makes them go backward, and he traps them. I'm not going to allow that. If he tries to bully me, I'll stand right in front of him, and if he hits me, I'll hit him right back. And then we'll see how the bully handles it when nobody is going to run away from him.
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On almost every environmental issue I care about, in fact, I've been wrong at one point or another. I used to think that climate change was no big deal, that most environmental problems were massive exaggerations, that oil reserves were effectively unlimited, and more.
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When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since.
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One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels.
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Career-driven millennials are strategic about working obsessively while they are single and earning enough money to afford advanced education. Most are patient enough to wait until 30 or later to develop their dream.
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Sometimes you have to exercise your insanity, to really make it strong.
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I'm a typical Irishman in that I only get home for weddings and funerals.
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I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans.
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Well, I think again, the worst part of it was just leading up to it, before we got on set, at least for me... dreading this idea that I was just going to suck and I really had strong feelings about that. I just didn't want to be that weak link.
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If people are able to run the affairs of a village well, eventually they'll be able to run a township, and a county.
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It is our hope that the AP program can serve as an anchor for increasing rigor in our schools. Rigor can be maintained while increasing student participation.
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The real reason why people are going with digital is that it's extraordinarily mobile, and it's cheaper, and it has a great image, and you just can't beat it at night. It's pulling in variations of colors; it's pulling in lights from 40 miles away - a candle would be seen.
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Normally, in the presence of radiation, communication links fail. But with autonomous robots, you don't need communications.
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There are Arthurian legends in 14 or 15 medieval European languages. They are the product of no one time or place. On the contrary, in sum they represent a tremendous mine of human understanding, rather as the Bible does.
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If there is one thing that I take pride in, it is the fact that I never, ever make a charge without offering a substantial amount of support for it. You may ultimately end up not agreeing with me, but you will have to concede that I offered much evidence in support of my position, something that people frequently do not do.
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The character is close to me, except that I haven't lived through those situations, so it's not completely me.
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To succeed in this world, you have to change all the time.
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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
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The world thinks that music is a commercial commodity. I'm glad that is not my code.
