Albert Cossery Quotes
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I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.
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You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.
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I hate competition.
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
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See, Ebola, like all threats to humanity, it's fueled by mistrust and distraction and division. When we build barriers amongst ourselves, and we fight amongst ourselves, the virus thrives. But unlike all threats to humanity, Ebola is one where we're actually all the same. We're all in this fight together.
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It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.
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Put your consumers in focus, and listen to what they're actually saying, not what they tell you.
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Gooseberries aren't just for creamy desserts and pies.
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When I was blonde I was perceived as an innocent and sweet young girl.
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There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who signed his pact with the devil 20 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it.
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Slowly but surely, we have much better female roles to play and to choose from.
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I like cars. I know some things. I can change my own car and battery and change my own oil.
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After God and my family, it's surf. I don't imagine me not surfing. Surf brings me smile every day.
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I think, in a lot of ways, we underestimate how much clothing plays a part in achieving our identities and in how we want the world to deal with us.
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My father cared about the world he lived in, and so he admitted his confusion about his place in America because he didn't want me to make the same mistake in my life.
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I am not trying to conform to an unrealistic model of beauty. I am, however, being proactive in being the healthiest I can be.
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You don't fight radical conservatism with not-quite-so radical conservatism.
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While actors are great and awesome, writers literally create new worlds from scratch. What is sexier than that? Personally, I don't know why every last person out there isn't dating a writer.
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It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.
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The times when black women have been successful in confronting and overcoming the structural and institutional sexism and racism that persists in our society have been when we are thoughtful and strategic about speaking up. It's when we've done what it takes to introduce and implement our ideas and our plans to make things better.
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Retirement's the most wonderful thing. I get to enjoy all the things I never stopped to notice on the way up. After an extraordinary life, it's time to enjoy my retirement.
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I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket.
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I guess I'm weirder than I thought, particularly as I think about me as a dad.
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So much beauty in the world, so few eyes to see it.
