William Faulkner Quotes
The whiskey died away in time and was renewed and died again, but the street ran on. From that night the thousand streets ran as one street, with imperceptible corners and changes of scene.
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I'm a little bit awkward on Twitter; like, I'm never really sure what to say.
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One afternoon, on my way to the campus - I was majoring in political science at Nairobi University - a photographer by the name of Peter Beard stopped me in the street and asked me if I'd ever been photographed.
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The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you're 16 can mirror the one you have when you're 26. Life repeats itself.
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I played cover gigs and traveled the country in my mom's old car, and my drummer and I set up a fake email and sent it out to agents. We pretended to be our own agent.
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My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'
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Luxury is a state of mind.
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When you lead change, sometimes you get arrows in your back. I mean, that's just the way the real world is.
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Female influence came from my grandmother and my aunt. They would sing Corsican love songs while cleaning the house and dress all in black and say melodramatic things like: 'I want to die.'
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I have never acted in one and I'm not at all interested to do so either.
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By any measure, NBC is a corporation.
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The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.
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I'm an eccentric English actor, and there's a lot of us around.
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Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.
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My friends are my family.
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But on the other hand I believe I'm a private person too, and I enjoy that aspect of my life as well.
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Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
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I feel I am a little unfit for the kind of music that is being made today. There is a big difference between what I sang earlier and what is being made now. I am not saying this music is bad, but there are too many beats.
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I'm probably more comfortable inside a Marine Corps rifle company than I am anywhere in my life.
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If we continue to fight the National Rifle Association on their home court, which is the legislative front, I think we'll continue to be frustrated. But when you have an ability to go directly to the public, that's a completely different field of engagement, and I think the NRA is not adept at that kind of engagement.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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That was always what I felt was the beauty of Rock 'n' Roll, it was entertainment and showbiz yet it had the idea of the voice of the people, it had an essence to it which was socially motivated. Not that I want to change to world, you know? But it was sort of relevant to real life, it involved the real essence of poetry or the real essence of fine art. But it was also entertainment. That was the real vitality.
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My experience in Iraq made me realize, and during the recovery, that I could have died. And I just had to do more with my life.
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The whiskey died away in time and was renewed and died again, but the street ran on. From that night the thousand streets ran as one street, with imperceptible corners and changes of scene.
