Aesop Dekker Quotes
Watching ass-stupid neocons glom on to a bipolar rapper because his incoherent word salad actually reflects their insipid worldview has been a treat.
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I can't change everything by myself but I can be one of the people who are trying to change the situation.
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In U.S. sports, you tend to be pretty strictly limited by the size of your team's market. When we heard that Villa was a club here that might be available, I had a strong feeling that a team in the West Midlands could be the chance to create something very special.
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I wasn't completely comfortable in the footy culture because I wasn't that comfortable in my own skin, which I am now. I'd fit in better now, but I don't miss the training and the injuries you get playing footy.
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With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe.
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We have but one flag, one country; let us stand together. We may differ in color, but not in sentiment. Many things have been said about me which are wrong, and which white and black persons here, who stood by me through the war, can contradict.
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When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.
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In Uzbekistan, hundreds of protesters were recently killed under the corrupt regime of President Karimov in what human rights groups are calling a massacre.
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I've never been fired in my life.
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For many years, Myanmar's leadership was largely shut out from the world of international diplomacy.
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At about 17, I decided I wanted to take kiteboarding seriously and compete, so my agents were like, 'Just keep sending in a few audition tapes anyway, just for good stuff.'
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I have such respect for... the Kennedy Center Honors. To be an artist in America and to be honored for it is extraordinary. In Europe, they really honor their artists. And you are on a very high level. And here it's not as revered as it is in Europe or Russia or anywhere in the world.
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If everyone does some good, think of what a good world this will be.
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Unlike others who have been caught swearing on camera, I apologised immediately. And yet I am the only person banned for swearing. That doesn't seem right.
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I think I've always been afraid of painting, really. Right from the beginning. All my paintings are about painting without a painter. Like a kind of mechanical form of painting.
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There was a rule, back when I was an education lawyer in Alabama, about visiting public schools: always go on a rainy day so you can see how badly the roofs leak.
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I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.
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Courage is just fear plus prayers plus understanding.
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I was named after my mother. And I guess when I started making records, Madonna Ciccone seemed too long and complicated, and I just got stuck with Madonna.
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In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.
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Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.
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The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
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Watching ass-stupid neocons glom on to a bipolar rapper because his incoherent word salad actually reflects their insipid worldview has been a treat.
