Cold Cave (Wesley Eisold) Quotes
You can't expect drive and compassion from everyone who enters your life, but you have to demand it of the people you are creating with.
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In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites.
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It's huge in the U.K., if someone's doing well, to put them down. That's what we do all the time. It's kind of like a cultural thing.
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When I saw Wonder Woman being constantly put in positions where she'd get tied up with her own rope, or held hostage, even as a kid, my reaction was 'C'mon, she's too smart for that.'
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Only amazing designers think of the truly new.
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I have my favourite fashion decade, yes, yes, yes: '60s. It was a sort of little revolution; the clothes were amazing but not too exaggerated.
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A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
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I feel bad that I'm the one always blamed for the failure of the space business - even though there are problems with government policy toward the space business.
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Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world.
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Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jazz. You don't need any prologues, you just play.
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I am not the most courageous guy in the world outside of the court.
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I never planned on being an actress or Wonder Woman, but everything just happened, and I am grateful and happy and in love with what I do.
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People call me a hermit. But I'm happy.
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I enjoy just being me. I don't need to be Queen Latifah, the brand, 24 hours a day.
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My first introduction to New Orleans was from the air, flying high over the city with a view of the land - and water - below.
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If I'm chartering in and out and flying home after I play, that doesn't make sense. But where we can bus, then we'll bring the family out and spend time with them during the day.
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Scrawling 'I'm gay' in lipstick on your parents' bedroom mirror may demonstrate a personal signature of the highest style, but is not particularly sensitive to their feelings. Upon hearing me utter those words almost twenty years ago, my own mother did what and self-respecting middle-class mom would do: went directly into a seizure.
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I'm Muslim the way many of my Jewish friends are Jewish: I avoid pork, and I take the big holidays off.
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It’ll be the ballot or it’ll be the bullet. It’ll be liberty or it’ll be death. And if you’re not ready to pay that price don’t use the word freedom in your vocabulary.
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A novelist has more talent for written than oral assignments.
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I do genuinely believe that, when given and presented with all the information and all the actual facts, the vast majority of people will make the right choice.
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My sport taught me what I could do with my talents, whether in the rink or in the rest of my life.
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All proofs rest on premises.
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You can't expect drive and compassion from everyone who enters your life, but you have to demand it of the people you are creating with.
