Ab-Soul (Herbert Anthony Stevens IV) Quotes
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Mr. Fitzgerald, I believe that is how he spells his name, seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.
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I love to be with my son and my grandchildren, like normal people. I have no particular idea of what I represent to other people. It's very mysterious to me. I don't understand it.
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The fact that we walked away from the Middle East, as distasteful as it was for us to stay involved and prevent wars, based on our long involvement there, we have helped to create and provide a foundation. Obviously for ISIS and also for the absolute barbarianism and human catastrophe that Assad impacted on his people.
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I never said half the things I said.
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Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
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You can bring people together around the issue of economic fairness. I don't want to be a mayor that goes into one neighborhood and gets jeered, and goes into another neighborhood and gets cheered.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I'm very into science-fantasy, that kind of swordfights and magic and technology thing.
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Ordinary Geiger counters, worn on belt clips and resembling pagers, have been in use by the U.S. Customs Service for years.
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My dad was always busy. You would pop round for a cup of tea, and within minutes you would see him walking past with a step-ladder. He was always fixing things.
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Teachers alone can't educate young people.
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When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when you're writing about it.
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I don't think I have one particular favourite writer. I have many whose works I will always buy or reread - Muriel Spark, Anthony Powell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ruth Rendell, James Ellroy, William McIlvanney, Kate Atkinson, John Burnside, Louise Welsh, Iain Banks.
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We spend our way to the poorhouse. We buy giant TVs and iPads. Our children wear nice clothes thanks to high-interest credit cards and payday loans. We purchase homes we don't need, refinance them for more spending money, and declare bankruptcy, often leaving them full of garbage in our wake. Thrift is inimical to our being.
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Obviously, you need talent to do well in your sport, but I think hard work goes a long way. You need to be lucky within the sport too, though. In badminton, you can benefit from good draws and people getting injured.
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Fashion is almost like a religion, for me at least.
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To be furious in religion is to be irreligiously religious.
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Poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for me. I like to poem my way through tricky questions and ideas. That's about the only consistent thread through my poem-creation process.
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Castellani's testimony clearly illustrates the concern we have that there is no way to separate the efforts to proselytize from the efforts to reform people.
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No religion, I'm just so explicit, I coexist in places you would never know existed.
