Afeni Shakur Quotes
You need not weep for Tupac, but weep for yourself, because we are left here with these contradictions that we still must face.
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There are always reasons for people's behaviour, and it's easy just to dismiss them and assume that we already know their story, especially if they're no good at showing their emotions. Life gives you all these knocks, it's so easy to form a shell to protect yourself. I've done it myself.
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Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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You have seen on TV how hard it is to go up 129,000 feet and how hard it is to come down.
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Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
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Reformed theology so far transcends the mere five points of Calvinism that it is an entire worldview.
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So writing is a very, very difficult position to obtain... and retain.
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When you live with an open heart, unexpected, joyful things happen.
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Some people only speak of freedom of speech while they're out of power. Once they're in power, they're ruthless in suppressing the rights of others.
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There is nothing worse than giving the longest of legs to the smallest of ideas.
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The blues is celebration, because when you take sorrow and turn it into music, you transform it.
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Yeah, I've been a little down. Totally natural. I'm getting a divorce, but now I'm ready to pull myself up by some G-strings.
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In this century we have made remarkable material progress, but basically we are the same as we were thousands of years ago. Our spiritual needs are still very great.
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I can put two and two together, you know. Do not think you are dealing with a man who has lost his grapes.
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My work doesn't speak about individuals (it's not portraiture in the traditional sense), it tries to speak about life in general in cities of the West - which is where I live and what I understand.
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This is the kind of work that newspapers are in business to do.
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My career goals generally remain the same, but my short time goals constantly change either because I've reached them all or they no longer fit into my current strategy.
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We are all given the ingredients of happiness, but the mixing is left to ourselves.
