Njabulo S Ndebele Quotes
The habit of looking at the spectacle has forced us to gloss over the nooks and crannies.
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I knew that there was an aspect to this story that was beyond the typical and that it was something very important about America, about our culture, and about bringing a story to a new generation that perhaps didn't know the details of it, and hadn't had the visceral experience that this film is 42.
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Whoever we are, we have to carve something out of our lives. I would like to be on my deathbed going, 'I've enjoyed that. I went through the rollercoaster of it, but I've appreciated it.'
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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
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Every generation finds the drug it needs.
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If you want to build a great company, get the hell out of Silicon Valley.
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There is a fundamental difference between the Polish experience of the state and the Russian experience. In the Polish experience, the state was always a foreign power. So, to hate the state was a patriotic act.
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People thought we were intimidating, especially once we'd had a few drinks, but when I look back we were virtually on top of each other, holding hands. We sounded so stupid.
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Simply put, female friendships face more obstacles because they often involve more emotion, more expectations and more potential for conflict.
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I wanted to be a soccer player; I wanted to do it at the highest level.
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It's a non-issue; it's behind us now. That was a long time ago.
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Music is my life and my passion.
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People forget that writers start off being readers. We all love it when we find a terrific read, and we want to let people know about it.
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I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.
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Baudelaire writes: In certain almost supernatural inner states, the depth of life is entirely revealed in the spectacle, however ordinary, that we have before our eyes, and which becomes the symbol of it." Here we have a passage that designates the phenomenological direction I myself pursue. The exterior spectacle helps intimate grandeur unfold.
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There is not a more disgusting spectacle under the sun than our subserviency to British criticism. It is disgusting, first, because it is truckling, servile, pusillanimous--secondly, because of its gross irrationality. We know the British to bear us little but ill will--we know that, in no case do they utter unbiased opinions of American books . . . we know all this, and yet, day after day, submit our necks to the degrading yoke of the crudest opinion that emanates from the fatherland.
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The habit of looking at the spectacle has forced us to gloss over the nooks and crannies.
