Ray Fearon Quotes
On your journey, don't forget to smell the flowers. Take time out to notice that you're alive. You can only live in one day.
Quotes to Explore
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Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
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You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.
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You'd better believe that Putin sees that in Syria, Obama draws a red line and ignores the red line.
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If it hadn't worked out professionally, I would be teaching music theory and composition in a small college somewhere and playing drums in a jazz trio at the Holiday Inn on weekends, and I'd be happy there, too.
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A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.
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In 1945, at the beginning of the Cold War, our leaders led us astray. We need to think of the Cold War as an aberration, a wrong turn. As such, we need to go back to where we were in 1945 - before we took the road to a permanent war economy, a national security state and a foreign policy based on unilateralism and cowboy triumphalism.
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We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
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I don't want to be satisfied with where I'm at or happy about what I've done. I want to keep pushing it.
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You need to have tremendous confidence in your work, even a touch of arrogance, chutzpah. Many very fine researchers lack intellectual daring. It's human nature to want to be cozy, secure. But that can be a cul de sac.
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In the Soviet Union I was the head of all oil production. And you know in the Soviet Union, you didn't get that job unless you were really worth it.
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Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.
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I don't spend much time on Twitter. I joined because I found it funny.
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I shop, therefore I am.
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I started as an engineer. I migrated to philosophy and international politics. And I did my studies about African – Africa democracy and democratization in Africa, taking Kenya as a model. And then, while I was doing so in 1996 in South Africa, Al Jazeera was established. So they requested me to be an analyst on African affairs.
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If I'm dancing, or teaching, or having a family I would want to live life to the fullest as possible.
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I never want to be a spectacle, but I also feel like a look should always have a little bit of an edge.
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'Landfill' by Daughter has calming, rich tones that are only improved upon by the gorgeous voice of Daughter.
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I always felt something different when I saw Gary Oldman on screen. It just felt like he knew how to reach a deeper level of himself, which is something I keep striving to reach.
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I can't say that there are "things" that make me come alive. There are thoughts that make me come alive. Those are thoughts that take me beyond myself; that remind me that there's a bigger game going on on this planet than simply my own existence; that love works miracles, and how much we need them at certain moment.
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Life is not a race, but a journey to be savoured each step of the way. Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery and today is a gift. That's why we call it the present.
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Whether or not technically they have rights under the Geneva Conventions, they have rights in customary international law, and all of us who are either involved as their representatives as their governments or those holding them have obligations.
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On your journey, don't forget to smell the flowers. Take time out to notice that you're alive. You can only live in one day.
