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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[E]mpathy - not squishy self-serving conflict avoidance - is the hand-maiden, not the enemy, of reason and intellectual inquiry.
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Excellence is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends.
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Life’s a journey that goes round and round and the end is closest to the beginning.
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A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.
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There's people outside our house; you get followed by photographers; you can't go out and have a cup of coffee with a friend without someone coming up to you.
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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.
