Rachel Corrie Quotes
I really value words. I really try to illustrate and let people draw their own conclusions.
Quotes to Explore
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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It was at Inver Slane, to the north of Leinster, the sons of Gaedhal of the Shining Armour, the Very Gentle, that were called afterwards the Sons of the Gael, made their first attempt to land in Ireland to avenge Ith, one of their race that had come there one time and had met with his death.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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Women are put in a position of feeling embarrassed about their bodies. It's so ridiculous, but also astounding - we have to always be apologetic about having created the human race.
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Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.
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Slow travel now rivals the fly-to-Barcelona-for-lunch culture. Advocates savour the journey, travelling by train or boat or bicycle, or even on foot, rather than crammed into an airplane. They take time to plug into the local culture instead of racing through a list of tourist traps.
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I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.
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I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.
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Over the years, God and St. Therese have kept me going no matter how bad things were.
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The problem with the Iranian regime, of course is, one, its unsettling effects on the Sunnis, particularly Saudi Arabia, and, secondly, its potential threat to Israel.
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It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.
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I am always worried that over-planning and outlining will kill the magic of writing; most of the world I created in 'California' occurred via good old sexy sentence-making.
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As awful as crime can be, it's what happens afterward - the struggling to get out of bed, to put one foot in front of the other - that alters people.
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As long as I love Beauty I am young.
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For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.
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I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
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I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.
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I'm a bit of an insomniac. I go to bed at 5am because I get caught up in watching TV or listening to music at night.
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I think it's highly likely that we'll continue to have high-performance graphics capability in living rooms. I'm not sure we're all going to put down our game controllers and pick up touch screens - which is a reasonable view, I'm just not sure I buy into it.
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To teach him betimes to love and be good-natur'd to others, is to lay early the true foundation of an honest man; all injustice generally springing from too great love of ourselves and too little of others.
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I really value words. I really try to illustrate and let people draw their own conclusions.
