Waris Dirie Quotes
Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.
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The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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You just have to take control of your own performance.
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I don't really think about the runs too much. I mean, if we get, like, a five-run lead, then I'll start to pitch according to that.
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But eventually it is a game of cricket.
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An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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The idea of doing a production of 'Carousel' that doesn't feel like it's stuck in the 1950s really intrigues me.
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The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
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With each book, in each place, I have to keep an ongoing map as I write because otherwise I don't know where I am.
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I don't know if I have enough guts to do a whole standard jazz record.
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I have a lightsaber at my front door for home protection. I have an 800-watt electric skateboard that I use to run errands in my neighborhood. It can go about six, seven miles, so depending on how much time I have, and how much I have to carry home, I'll take it really far. I love that thing.
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The American public highly overrates its sense of humor. We're great belly laughers and prat fallers, but we never really did have a real sense of humor. Not satire anyway. We're a fatheaded, cotton-picking society. When we realize finally that we aren't God's given children, we'll understand satire. Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.
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Ontario wood prices are among the highest in the world.
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It is difficult to separate, at times, the myth from the truth.
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Disinterring famous people has become a kind of sport in the Hispanic world. Before Cervantes, it happened to Evita, Che Guevara, Federico Garcia Lorca, and Pablo Neruda.
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He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
