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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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.
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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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Good and bad - this is the story of my life.
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I have a real passion for driving. Earlier on in my life I wanted to be a race car driver. But I don't pay an extortionate amount of money for cars. I'm pretty frugal.
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I feel it's OK if not everybody agrees with me or likes me. The weird thing was it turned into people thinking I said we deserved it. I didn't say that - but Americans do need to look at their behavior in the world. It's easy to say, 'That was awful,' and hard to ask, 'Is there a way I can amend?'
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You have no ambition, I well know. Your wishes are all moderate.' 'As moderate as those of the rest of the world, I believe. I wish as well as every body else to be perfectly happy, but like every body else it must be in my own way. Greatness will not make me so.
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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!
