William J. Mann Quotes
The limited fictions used to sell the lives of public figures often form a cloudy chiaroscuro that covers their true humanity.
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We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of meaning. It's hard to have meaning in a closet, encapsulated by nothing. I think you really have to expand yourself and your life and do what you can for other people.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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Cooking and eating at home is made even better by the fact that you don't have to worry about driving after a couple of bottles of very nice wine. For me that's the ideal combination: working hard and enjoying the fruits of your labour.
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We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too.
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I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.
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I am someone who isn't always perfect.
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If we focus on loving others the way God does, scripture says that we will be fulfilling His whole law.
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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
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After the 'Grey Album,' everyone thought of me as the hip-hop guy, the remix maestro. I didn't know how to show them otherwise.
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I eat healthy and don't even get on a scale. I have my favorite jeans that I wear, and if they are getting too snug, I watch what I eat for a week.
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I didn't really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home.
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'Down we go,' said Paddy. 'Now pray to Saint Anthony if you be a good Catholic-''I'm not,' snapped Fay, 'and if you'll give more mind to the boat and less to religion we’ll gain by it.'
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A moment guess'd - then back behind the Fold Immerst of Darkness round the Drama roll'd Which, for the Pastime of Eternity, He doth Himself contrive, enact, behold.
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Ultimately, I conclude that however we understand existence, what gives meaning to our lives are those things that serve our neurochemically based emotional self-interest in a sustainable way.
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Anybody who makes speeches written by someone else is just a robot.
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Algunas cosas se hacen tan nuestras que las olvidamos.
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My hairstyle is not common in India, where my parents come from.
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We work for the public, and I believe that if a senator wants to block a piece of legislation or a nominee, they owe the public an explanation.
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When I was little, I had concerts on the subway, and old ladies came up to me like, 'You are so good!'
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There are too many African-Americans with too much money for us to have to go to anybody else for anything in terms of schools, in terms of scholarships, in terms of entrepreneurship, in terms of moving us along as a group to that place where we should be as a people.
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Raymond Passworthy: But... we're such little creatures. Poor humanity's so fragile, so weak. Little... little animals.
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The limited fictions used to sell the lives of public figures often form a cloudy chiaroscuro that covers their true humanity.
