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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I never left a team in worse shape than I got it. Not once.
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'I believe, Mr. Snitchey,' said Alfred, 'there are quiet victories and struggles, great sacrifices of self, and noble acts of heroism, in it - even in many of its apparent lightnesses and contradictions - not the less difficult to achieve, because they have no earthly chronicle or audience - done every day in nooks and corners, and in little households, and in men's and women's hearts - any one of which might reconcile the sternest man to such a world, and fill him with belief and hope in it.
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Ultimately, taste is so niche and so personal.
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You need not weep for Tupac, but weep for yourself, because we are left here with these contradictions that we still must face.
