Frances Wright Quotes
Turn your churches into halls of science, and devote your leisure day to the study of your own bodies, the analysis of your own minds, and the examination of the fair material world which extends around you!
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
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You can't talk of the dangers of snake poisoning and not mention snakes.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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Devo and The Cramps didn't get big until they went to New York City. Chrissie Hynde didn't get big until she moved to London. When I was growing up, there wasn't even a place to play - just one little bar. If we wanted to have a gig, then we had to drive 45 minutes up to Cleveland.
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People go to extraordinary lengths to get films made.
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My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought a quality education. People have these expectations of who they think you should be. And I say it's because they don't really understand Malcolm X - or his wife.
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I had several near death experiences or very, you know, close calls, if you may, in Iraq. You know, there was an incident where I was nearly kidnapped.
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I get homesick.
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I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.
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Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.
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No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
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There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
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People who drive Jeeps are people who like to do outdoor activities.
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This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
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It's that experienced eye that knows what the public loves and how to create that Hollywood magic that drives pop culture.
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No I'm not lucky, I'm blessed YES
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I am someone who is so grateful and practice gratitude every single day.
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Putin said I was a genius. I do say this: Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we actually could get along with Russia and China and some other countries that we don’t get along with, and then we go out and knock the hell out of ISIS? Wouldn’t it be nice if we cleaned that mess up? Wouldn’t it be smart?
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I've only been on MTV once as one of their 'Closet Classics,' with some bootleg footage of a 1970 tour I did in Holland. They didn't know what to make of my music, but they finally invented a name for it - world beat music.
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Turn your churches into halls of science, and devote your leisure day to the study of your own bodies, the analysis of your own minds, and the examination of the fair material world which extends around you!
