Aja Monet Quotes
Poetry alone cannot change the material conditions of an unjust society, but I challenge anyone to name a substantive freedom movement that does not have poetry.
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I believe that dogma is often evil.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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I'm 20 years old, and I still love love. I hope I'm sweet. Just your everyday girl.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.
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Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.
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Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.
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I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.
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The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media.
Garry Kasparov -
I feel like every word I say now, I can really inspire people.
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The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity could not be the only factor in the march to independence.
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I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.
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Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.
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People have been told so often that resurrection is just a metaphor, and means Jesus died and was glorified - in other words, he went to Heaven, whatever that means. And they've never realized that the word 'resurrection' simply didn't mean that.
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I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself.
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Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.
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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.
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I wrote a piece for the school literary magazine that now makes me think: 'My God in Heaven, this is just the worst drivel.'
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America, for me, is the country where, if you have something great to offer, you'll be valued highly.
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When I got my first loft, I still didn't know what I was going to paint... There were long stretches when I just sat there and thought without interruption.
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Mathematics is the science which uses easy words for hard ideas.
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I think the misconceptions, there are certain people that are fixed in those with those beliefs, and been in those for twenty-five years, you're not going to change them.... What you've got to do is basically talk to the future about what you want to with the country.
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Poetry alone cannot change the material conditions of an unjust society, but I challenge anyone to name a substantive freedom movement that does not have poetry.
