Emily Haines Quotes
That's the main work that I've done in my life - really wanting to get past that gender trap where there's a certain nudity in poetry. It's not about showing my soul, it's about observations.
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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
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One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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Why do you think so many actors are only half-developed people? It's very easy when you're a young actor to have these intense, explosive friendships for short periods of time, because you can control what's shown of you. Then you go on to your next job and reinvent yourself again. I think it's important to find something constant.
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I want to make the music that's not there anymore. I'm so passionate about the singing voice... What I'm trying to do actually with my album is show that it's my voice that's leading. It's my voice that's the instrument.
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I can change a light fixture, and I can do certain things. But I'm really bad in terms of construction. I can't do any of it on my own.
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Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!
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A closed mind is a dying mind.
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Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
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The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.
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Well, I'm a professional.
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I haven't been hit since Leon Spinks hit me in '92.
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Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.
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The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.
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Our ports and our borders are the most unprotected fronts in the war on terror.
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Even the pyramids might one day disappear, but not the Palestinians longing for their homeland.
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My dad always told me that the best way to get somebody to get at you is to talk bad about them to somebody else.
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My name is Imam Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, the former H. Rap Brown. I am a devoted servant of Allah, and an unwavering devotee to His cause. For more than 30 years, I have been tormented and persecuted by my enemies for reasons of race and belief.
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I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s.
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The first time I ever sang in front of a crowd of people was, like, 10,000 people in Japan at a skating exhibition.
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If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an idea that had been set deep in me by all my schooling so far: I was a bright boy and I ought to make something out of myself... something else that would be a cut or two above my humble origins.
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'People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.'
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History contains heroes, but no one is a hero entirely, and no one is a hero for very long.
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That's the main work that I've done in my life - really wanting to get past that gender trap where there's a certain nudity in poetry. It's not about showing my soul, it's about observations.
