Edgerrin James Quotes
My biggest fear in the world is going broke and having to depend on someone else again.
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
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As soon as street art got popular, I was just like, 'I'm out of here.'
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I did a lot of stunts, so the harness work isn't foreign to me either.
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My father loves people. No matter what their race, no matter what their position in life, he treated everyone with kindness and love and respect. And that was instilled in me just by watching him.
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History, whether sacred or profane, hides her teaching from those who study her through coloured glasses. She only reveals truth to those who look through the cold clear medium of passionless inquiry, who seek the Truth without determining first the masquerade in which alone they will receive it.
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In Beverly Hills, around 3 P.M. on Bedford Drive, a strange rite occurs. All the men and women who have had facial surgery leave the their surgeons and walk up and down the street bandaged like mummies in Prada, waiting for their loved ones to pick them up.
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The compulsively readable events of my life occurred mainly in infancy, and it's been pretty humdrum ever since.
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Central banks need to be able to buy bonds if there are short-term malfunctions of the markets. But buying bonds without differentiation and without limits would be very problematic.
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The best part about being friends with your parents is that no matter what you do, they have to keep loving you.
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The waves of religion based on terrorism in the 1990s are based on the tormented response of a mutilated Muslim society whose progressive forces have been savagely emasculated. Why on earth is the Arab world so hostile to women? Why can it not see women as a force for development?
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Injecting some confusion stabilizes the system.
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The art world as a whole, and museums in particular, belong to what has aptly been called the 'consciousness industry.'
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A large, coarse-skinned young woman but with something of my friend's features, particularly the mouth.
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Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.
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I know that many will call this useless work.
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I don't have family in this business. I had two parents that loved me, that worked 24-7, and this is what instilled hard work in me. So you hear the stories about my upbringing, my religion.
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I love movies. And sometimes it will be a case where I don't notice music.
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One of the biggest problems is - you know, I've got some Hispanic friends - is that a lot of those folks that don't know English, is primarily because they don't even know Spanish. They don't even know their own language.
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Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best.
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I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive.
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My work ethic came from my parents and my fear of failure. I came from a small, predominantly black school and I didn't want to let them down.
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There is no shame in confusion or fear. "There was only shame in the silence fear had produced. . . . It was the silence that betrayed us."
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It was an old fear, a fear that has never left me: the fear that, in losing pieces of her life, mine lost intensity and importance. And the fact that she didn’t answer emphasized that preoccupation. However hard I tried in my letters to communicate the privilege of the days in Ischia, my river of words and her silence seemed to demonstrate that my life was splendid but uneventful, which left me time to write to her every day, while hers was dark but full.
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My biggest fear in the world is going broke and having to depend on someone else again.
