William Shockley Quotes
The major cause for American Negroes intellectual and social deficits is hereditary and racially genetic in origin and thus not remedial to a major degree by improvement in environment.
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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
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I have a strong upper body; I'm an arms swimmer, and I always have been.
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I always wanted to act. I guess I've always been a bit of a drama queen.
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I'm a serial dater. When I see someone I like, we go on multiple dates.
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My style's not for everyone - I'm an extremist.
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.
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To tell you the truth, I don't really follow what men wear. Men's fashion is much simpler than women's. It doesn't change as much.
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You parents of the wilful and the wayward! Don't give them up. Don't cast them off. They are not utterly lost. The Shepherd will find his sheep. They were His before they were yours - long before He entrusted them to your care; and you cannot begin to love them as He loves them.
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You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.
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When you grow up around it, I just watched my father work really hard. He wasn't around as much as I would have liked. And when I grew up, I understood why.
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Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.
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You lose the speed before the stamina.
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There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.
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Love is a credulous thing.
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Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day one should meditate on being carried away by surging waves, falling from thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease.
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In the name of the rule of law, democracy and human rights, we cannot accept that the rights of individuals (Arab or Muslim) be trampled upon, or that populations are targeted and discriminated against in the name of the war against terrorism.
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I played piano growing up. I played classical piano since I was 5, and I sang in choirs, and I sang in plays and musicals.
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If acting doesn't work out, I'm probably going to be a professional chef.
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If humanity is being swallowed by a modern primitivism, imagination might be the thing that saves us all.
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I've been an activist since I was a teenager. I was always curious about what we would now call social justice. I remember just trying to navigate growing up poor in an overpoliced environment with a single mother and a father who was in and out of prison.
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When I hear so-called professional journalists ask why we have celebrities speak for us and for the animals, the environment or social causes, I marvel at their denial of the rules of their own trade.
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There's a lot of things in life that we don't know why they're coming exactly at this moment.
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The major cause for American Negroes intellectual and social deficits is hereditary and racially genetic in origin and thus not remedial to a major degree by improvement in environment.
