Sun Ra Quotes
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I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage there will be a problem I didn't anticipate. It's really good to think we got it all nailed - of course you've never got it all nailed.
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I want to ski down Mount Cho Oyu in the Himalayas when I am 85, descending from a height of 8,201 meters.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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I still write in long hand. I type like a chimpanzee.
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I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself.
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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.
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After I learn more English, I'll work hard and make more films.
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I feel like I have another level every year that I start a new season of basketball. If I continue to keep growing, and make everything consistent, I'm going to get better and better each year.
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Death is the beginning of something.
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People's ideas and fears can make them small but they cannot make you small. People's prejudices can diminish them but they cannot diminish you. Small-minded people can think they determine your worth. But only you can determine your worth.
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United States and our allied partners need to wake up. ISIS is at war with us and civilization.
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Anthropomorphic animals, when taken out of narrative into actual visibility, always turn into buffoonery or nightmare.
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I began as a model, but that did not really hold my interest for too long! I believe I stood out from the parade of models trying to make it in Hollywood, which helped launch my career beyond the one-night-stand horror movie.
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I keep all my clothes on in House on Haunted Hill, Mary Jane's Last Dance, and The Way of the Gun.
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The cry for the national home for the Jews does not make much appeal to me. The sanction for it is sought in the Bible and the tenacity with which the Jews have hankered after return to Palestine. Why should they not, like other peoples of the earth, make that country their home where they are born and where they earn their livelihood?
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To let friendship die away by negligence and silence, is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of this weary pilgrimage.
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I am not one of those actors who believes he has to live the part he is playing. I can turn it on and off.
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I'm from so far back in the sticks that they had to pump the light in there.
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I lean over you, your equal, offering you a mirror for your perfect nothingness, for your shadows which are neither light nor absence of light, for this void which contemplates. To all that which you are, and, for our language, are not, I add a consciousness. I make you experience your supreme identity as a relationship, I name you and define you. You become a delicious passivity.
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The living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free!
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The light of the future casts the shadows of tomorrow.
