Richard Tyler Blevins (Ninja) Quotes
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It's insane that people have these Internet identities. It has very little to do with who we really are. As a writer, who I'm friends with, how I spend my time, what I look like, what I wear, what I eat, what kind of music I like - it's totally not important to the work.
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Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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Events tend to recur in cycles.
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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It's more fun to look at an old picture of me than it is to look at a new one sometimes. Although, I still wear a dress pretty well.
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Over the years, I have worked very hard to achieve what I have so far. But I've not been alone in this journey. A lot of the credit for this goes to my fans - it's because of them that I'm here today.
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I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.
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In the West, if a city faces financial difficulties, it'll go bankrupt. But in China, cities will be subsidised by the Ministry of Finance. So some small- and medium-sized cities aren't worried about going bankrupt. They figure the central government will help them out.
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God has taken care of me, and mother dear has taken care of me, too. All my life.
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Every child matters. If we fail our children, we are bound to fail our present, our future, faith, cultures, and civilisations as well.
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No one wants to drown. Drowning would be the worst. Cause everyone knows that feeling. That feeling, oh it's the worst... when you think you're drowning.
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I really only worked for about a month on 'Meatballs.' What happened was that Ivan Reitman figured out that studios wanted to meet everybody involved with 'Animal House' except the producer. So he thought he'd better start directing.
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To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
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Who is a terrorist? Is it not the person who has been persecuting human beings simply because they are black?
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Instead of yelling and spanking, which don't work anyway, I believe in finding creative ways to keep their attention - turning things into a game, for instance. And, when they do something good, positive reinforcement and praise.
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I do not live to play, but I play in order that I may live, and return with greater zest to the labors of life.
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There were a lot of offers before 'Vicky Donor,' but I wanted to wait for the right opportunity.
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Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.
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I can 100 percent compete at the top level in every game that I play.
