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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It is something where I think that people need to take a step back and realize how bad these things we are doing really are for our ears. But nobody really thinks about it. We're playing shows every night with music in our ears. That's just the industry.
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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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Fashion will take on added stature one day, but try not to be stifled by it. You will learn, as you mature, to swap heels for Stan Smith trainers, minidresses for crisp white shirts. And you will never be one of those people who just roll out of bed.
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Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.
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Our guys used to call him Mr. Clutch. He was a clutch pitcher.
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I love biographies. I'm especially into stuff about Hollywood in the '40s and '50s. I find it fascinating and terrifying.
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It is a curious thing that the more the world shrinks because of electronic communications, the more limitless becomes the province of the storytelling entertainer.
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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!
