Walter Rodney Quotes
For the only great men among the unfree and the oppressed are those who struggle to destroy the oppressor.
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
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When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
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I've got a 1990 Porsche 911. It's just a Carrera, a very simple, straightforward little thing that goes like stink. I love it.
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
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It was a deliberate decision to act in family entertainers like 'Govindudu Andari Vadele' and 'Bruce Lee.'
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Justice Scalia is predictable. He can be counted on to come down with a conservative opinion, and generally, to bring Justice Clarence Thomas with him.
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Who I have fought and how I have fought, it says something about me.
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I first arrived in New York in 1979. I was 19 and I was going to University in Houston, Texas, and I decided that I knew what I wanted to do and it was time to go and do it. I literally ran away from college.
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Writing was like digging coal. I sweat blood. The spell is on me.
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The person in New York City is showing too little empathy for the Trump voter. The Trump voter is showing too little empathy for the person who's very worried about the refugee ban. They're not spending enough time with each other to have a meaningful conversation.
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But if we ask where precisely in the brain that point of view is located, the simple assumptions that work so well on larger scales of space and time break down. It is now quite clear that there is no single point in the brain where all information funnels in, and this fact has some far from obvious consequences.
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'I think that I will not answer that question,' he said at last. 'I would create as many false images as there were ears to hear me.''Half as many,' Clissum pointed out delicately.
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My music is not modern, it is merely badly played
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You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit.
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L'homme enfin n'est pas entièrement coupable - il n'a pas commencé l'histoire - ni tout à fait innocent, puisqu'il la continue.
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I think most people gain some sense of how to look at a painting, but no one ever teaches you how to look at a piece of silver.
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I was never really a virtuoso guitar player per se.
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I'm paying more taxes inside my company and personally than I'll ever receive from Congress.
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Music to me is the air I breathe it's the blood that pumps through my veins that keeps me alive
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Endorphins are a very powerful thing.
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I definitely like taking the dark horse approach and picking people you should not be getting behind, and you figure out a way to get behind them.
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'To Die For,' with Nicole Kidman, is great - her desire to be a part of news, how she uses news to further her career and how it can drive you insane. I love that movie.
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A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle.
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For the only great men among the unfree and the oppressed are those who struggle to destroy the oppressor.
