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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What is left of you once your clothes have had their say?
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When I get all focused on songwriting, I get into all the marketing and promotion that we do to make it happen. Then the right song comes along and blows it all out of the water. The right song will do it for you every time.
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He was always very unassuming, a regular guy, but his approach to training and preparation was amazing. He was really a consummate professional, a great leader.
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Major Major never sees anyone in his office while he's in his office.
