Ralph Bunche Quotes
We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dreaming idiots and trusting fools to do anything less.
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What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most resilient things in our world - biological life, stock markets, the Internet - are loosely organized.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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I have selective hearing.
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I've always performed. I've done plays at home.
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The problem men seem to have, and women, too, is that they have this very structured idea that we should find a partner and settle down and be, you know, faithful. And yet clearly this is really, really hard for anybody to do!
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I am super-proud to have a sort of famous character in my background that if you're a certain age, he was probably a part of your youth. I think that's pretty cool.
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People don't understand that all presidents, the minute they become president, get a knock at the door. And there's a man there saying, 'Let's talk about your funeral.' At the time I thought, God, that's a terrible thing. Later on, I thought it was pretty wise.
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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
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Do you know why dogs are man's best friend? It's because they're not in politics.
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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I've pretty much behaved like a knucklehead my entire life.
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I still have my school friends who are actually friends. It's nice that they don't think much about my singing career. They think it is cool, and they are happy for me, but they don't really bother me about it. To them, I'm still just the schoolgirl from next door.
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Violence against embassies and civilians must be categorically condemned. At the same time, we must attempt to understand why such events occur.
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When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.
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It was always my dream to write for a living.
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If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.
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Hamm: There's something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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The goal of Australian foreign policy should be to promote the maximum harmony between the U.S. and China.
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I did photography in summer camp; I did it in high school. The only hard decision I've had to make was whether to go towards photo or film. And I ultimately realized that the type of photo I was interested in was actually photojournalism. And it's a very individualist career, whereas film is a very team-driven medium. So that's why I chose film.
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All passions are exaggerated, otherwise they would not be passions.
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The world has changed a great deal from when I began 50 years ago. I was very fortunate. There were a lot of opportunities that perhaps don't exist today.
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We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dreaming idiots and trusting fools to do anything less.
