Chenjerai Hove Quotes
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The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington – wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington.
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The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.
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Seventy years old! How did that happen? I was part of the generation that wasn't going to die.
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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
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I'm more of a 5 Live man. But I might listen to a bit of Coldplay or The Smiths.
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Basically hated everything made in the '80s, music television - it was really about the '90s for me. 'Encino Man' was a big hit. 'Robin Hood: Men in Tights.'
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I vowed I would do everything I could to stop the Isle of Man counting towards the world championship. And it was stopped, so they love me in the Isle of Man.
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Dontel Benjamin on 'Eastbound' is a loud-mouth, braggadocios, crazy man, while Roy on 'Rake' is a very deliberate, thoughtful man, and he doesn't scream a lot.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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Personal records are not what football is all about, but as goalscorers, we live and die by figures and numbers because, ultimately, that's how people will judge you.
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Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.
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It's easier, as a white person, to be silent about racial injustice. It's easier. On paper. But it's not easier on the whole, because injustice affects all of us, whether we know it or not, whether we acknowledge it or not.
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Working out should be a key part of your life but not your whole life. When it is all a man could talk about, it becomes too much.
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There is no god, so how can I consider myself a god? God is the greatest lie invented by man.
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Stevie Wonder is just one of those guys that completely delivers everything that you want to be true about Stevie Wonder. He's an amazing human being, and the fairytale exists with that man.
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I am writing to all the churches to let it be known that I will gladly die for God if only you do not stand in my way... Let me be food for the wild beasts, for they are my way to God.
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Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.
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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
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It used to be said all horse players die broke - you can't beat the races. But today, with the Pick 6's and Superfectas, you can. Not that the odds aren't against you, but a good hit, and it's hard to blow that back.
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You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
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Perpetual anticipation is good for the soul but it's bad for the heart.
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Sex and death, the magnetic poles of fiction, attract us children's writers no less than adult authors, but we have to be more leery of their pull.
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We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.
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A silent man will die in the silence of his foolishness.
