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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Being a single woman is like going off to war.
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Every lie haunts our future.
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Never before had I known the sudden quiver of understanding that travels from word to brain to heart, the way a new language can move, coil, swim into life under the eyes, the almost savage leap of comprehension, the instantaneous, joyful release of meaning, the way the words shed their printed bodies in a flash of heat and light.
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As someone who runs a solar financing company and founded the world's largest youth clean energy organization, I know solar energy is a very good investment.
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Science, not religion, has taught me my most useful values, among them intellectual honesty. It is better to go without answers than to accept those that merely resolve puzzlement.
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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!
