Andy Irons Quotes
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Everything I do, I go to black people. If I have a problem at the airport, I'll go to the black ticket agent. I hope they notice me because I'll get better service. If I'm at a restaurant, I look for the black waiter. Rent-a-Car, give you the upgrade.
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Love, in the eyes of the world, is either a carnal appetite or a vague fancy, which possession extinguishes or absence destroys. That is why it is commonly said, with a strange abuse of words, that passion does not endure.
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In Swat, there are two jobs a woman's going to do: a teacher or a doctor. If not, then become a housewife.
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If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.
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Adequacy is sufficient.
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Photography can be a powerful instrument for change, and photojournalists can tell stories that make a difference.
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To be able to stand on the podium and see one Canadian flag raised is one thing, but to see two, it feels like you're not alone.
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I don't feel much pressure to fit in. I never have. I've always just wanted to do my thing. I have really good friends and good family, and if I don't fit in somewhere else, I fit in at home.
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Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.
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You know what daring really is to me? It's maybe much more simple: the willingness to get up and try it again. It's not about whether or not you fall down, it's how you get back up. And I've taken quite a few tumbles, myself.
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People settle for so much less because they find their identities in the world's fickle and untrue opinions. God made you royal with His blood. Live.
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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be faster changing and more unpredictable than the present.
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Weeding is as necessary to agriculture as sowing.
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If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.
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Warren Street was at the high end of the New Romantic scene. They were mostly college art students and people who knew top designers.
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I've always been a happy-go-lucky person. I haven't got any dark tales, I didn't draw on my own past, I'm from a very normal stable background and had an amazing childhood, and I haven't got any complaints really.
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We usually evaluate creative process in terms of how much feeling or thinking was behind the work or how well the work was done. Isn't there any other way of appreciating the process? What if the standard of excellence was how fully present the artist was during the process?
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I'd rather vote for something I want and not get it than vote for something I don't want, and get it.
