Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes
Since inequalities of privilege are greater than could possibly be defended rationally, the intelligence of privileged groups is usually applied to the task of inventing specious proofs for the theory that universal values spring from, and that general interests are served by, the special privileges which they hold.
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I believe that if you eat well, you work even better.
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I think singing and acting go hand in hand. Take an R&B singer: one song says, 'I love you,' the next is, 'Baby, don't leave me', the next is, 'If you leave me I don't care.' You have to drop in and out of different perspectives.
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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
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I've always been motivated to stop people from doing dysfunctional things.
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If you don't go to a dance, you can never be rejected, but you'll never get to dance, either.
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You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz.
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No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
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Imagine if I'd said, 'I have to be the best actress - I want that and nothing else.' I never would have directed. I never would have produced. I never would have done a beauty line. I would have just worried about getting a job or been frustrated that I wasn't getting the job that I wanted. I was ready to be a businesswoman.
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On Christmas, my family and I see a movie and go out for Chinese food. We don't celebrate Christmas in the traditional sense, in that we do not actually celebrate Christmas.
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The trouble with conservatives is that too many of them come to Washington thinking they are going to drain the swamp, only to discover that Washington is a hot tub.
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Golf is about knowledge, and studying another player - more than listening to a teacher - is the best way to get it.
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Trying on pants is one of the most humiliating things a man can suffer that doesn't involve a woman.
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The Internet's great promise is to make the world's information universally accessible and useful.
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Feathers shall raise men towards the heaven even as they do the birds:-That is by the letters written by their quills.
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Baby why'd you leave me, why'd you have to go; I was counting on forever, now I'll never know.
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You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages.
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I believe that our very survival depends upon us becoming better systems thinkers.
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Was it worth it? Feeling better for a minute or two, knowing that the cold would still be out there waiting?
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We were never created to settle for mere religion. Jesus did not die so that we could have a religious belief system - but rather a life-giving relationship with our Father.
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Here I am on the shore of Brittany. Let the cities light up in the evening. My day is done. I am leaving Europe. The sea air will burn my lungs. Lost climates will tan me. I will swim, trample the grass, hung, and smoke especially. I will drink alcohol as strong as boiling metal--just as my dear ancestors did around their fires.
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I keep forcing, I keep learning new things in the game, and so far I have been taking challenges as they come.
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Since inequalities of privilege are greater than could possibly be defended rationally, the intelligence of privileged groups is usually applied to the task of inventing specious proofs for the theory that universal values spring from, and that general interests are served by, the special privileges which they hold.
