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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Only utopian liberals could be surprised that the Nazis were art connoisseurs.
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Some of the smartest people in the world never talk cause they got more sense than everybody else.
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We live in a time where we're made to feel guilty about overeating, oversleeping, and not exercising. Garfield not only does all that, but he doesn't apologize for it.
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'But what happens when you die?' 'You’re finished with,' Enderby said promptly. 'Done for. And even if you weren’t – well, you die then, gasp your last, then you’re sort of wandering, free of body. You wander around and then you come in contact with a sort of big thing. What is this big thing? God, if you like.'
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Des moments libres. Toute vie bien réglée a les siens, et qui ne sait pas les provoquer ne sait pas vivre.
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I wasn't a smart kid and I still don't think I'm too smart when it comes to book smart, but I was very good with what I knew and with my craft and I think that was my calling in life. But even today I never went to college.
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The light of the future casts the shadows of tomorrow.
