Hamid Dabashi Quotes
Racism consists in devaluing the humanity of certain people by dismissing it or playing it down even when not intentional at the same time as highlighting and playing up European philosophy, assuming it to be universal. It may be global, because it piggybacks on imperial expansion, but it certainly cannot be universal.Hamid Dabashi
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I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.
Victoria Woodhull -
I am not sure that you, the younger generations, will like to go to war that we went through. So, we learn as the mistakes are being committed.
Ibrahim Babangida -
I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
Samantha Shannon -
Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
Felicia Hemans -
My favorite big city would have to be Chicago. I lived in Indiana for several years and would always go into the city with my family for Cubs games or to visit the aquarium and museums on field trips.
Karen Fairchild Little Big Town -
Doing and making positive programming for young people is so important to me, and I will keep doing it.
Zendaya
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Comedy is not funny. Comedy is hard work and timing and lots and lots of rehearsals.
Larry Hagman -
Top knots are the easiest thing to create.
Zendaya -
Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.
Vin Scully -
Charles McCarry is the best modern writer on the subject of intrigue - by the breadth of Alan Furst, by the fathom of Eric Ambler, by any measure.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I do worry about young people in the business who have experienced a lot of success and are punted around doing those manic publicity trails, when you don't really know who you are yet.
Sally Hawkins -
Deus seu Natura
Baruch Spinoza
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Jellicle Cats come out tonight, Jellicle Cats come one come all: The Jellicle Moon is shining bright - Jellicles come to the Jellicle Ball.
T. S. Eliot -
We can experience nothing but the present moment, live in no other second of time, and to understand this is as close as we can get to eternal life.
P. D. James -
Let us honour if we canThe vertical manThough we value noneBut the horizontal one.
W. H. Auden -
Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison, and then waiting around for the rat to die.
Anne Lamott -
This is an evil law, a black flag hovers over it.
Ayman Odeh -
In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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It's always a collective group of people coming together to oppose those things which are fundamentally contrary to our basic humanity.
Laurence Fishburne -
When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something good for people, to help humanity free itself from its hang-ups.
John Coltrane -
Organs, faculties, powers, capacities, or whatever else we call them; grow by use and diminish from disuse, it is inferred that they will continue to do so. And if this inference is unquestionable, then is the one above deduced from it-that humanity must in the end become completely adapted to its conditions-unquestionable also. Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity.
Herbert Spencer -
Yeah, I have a tough-girl image.
Miranda Lambert -
Racism consists in devaluing the humanity of certain people by dismissing it or playing it down even when not intentional at the same time as highlighting and playing up European philosophy, assuming it to be universal. It may be global, because it piggybacks on imperial expansion, but it certainly cannot be universal.
Hamid Dabashi