Njabulo S Ndebele Quotes
The habit of looking at the spectacle has forced us to gloss over the nooks and crannies.Njabulo S Ndebele
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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.
Harrison Ford -
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.'
Noma Dumezweni -
A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
Karl Kraus -
Every generation finds the drug it needs.
P. J. O'Rourke -
If you want to build a great company, get the hell out of Silicon Valley.
Bill Gates -
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.
Ryszard Kapuscinski
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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.
Keren Woodward Bananarama -
Simply put, female friendships face more obstacles because they often involve more emotion, more expectations and more potential for conflict.
April Masini -
I wanted to be a soccer player; I wanted to do it at the highest level.
Tim Howard -
It's a non-issue; it's behind us now. That was a long time ago.
Brian Urlacher -
Music is my life and my passion.
Edwyn Collins -
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.
Karin Slaughter
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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.
Michel Foucault -
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.
Gaston Bachelard -
Flower in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower-but if I could understand What you are, root and all, all in all, I should know what God and man is.
Alfred Lord Tennyson -
There was something alike terrifying and piteous in the spectacle of these frail old morsels of humanity consecrating their last flickering energies to the task of making each other wretched. Hatred seemed to be the one faculty which had survived in undiminished vigor where all else was dropping into ordered and symmetrical decay.
Hector Hugh Munro -
The habit of looking at the spectacle has forced us to gloss over the nooks and crannies.
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