Edouard Glissant Quotes
To move from the oral to the written is to immobilise the body, to take control to possess it.
Quotes to Explore
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According to Teenage Research Unlimited, 51 percent of 13-15 year olds say they will be faced with making a decision regarding alcohol in the next three months.
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For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.
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As far as I can remember, every dime I ever had went to something extravagant. I would rather spend more, buy fewer items and have them forever.
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My life has taken me down several different paths I never expected it to take me down. Not in a million years.
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While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.
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Today in India there are all sections of people, as the BJP realized when the poor voted them out.
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Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.
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I'm not perfect, but what's wonderful about eating a plant-based diet is, I don't have to be.
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People care and are willing to help me out my desperate circumstances.
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Oprah has definitely caught my eye. My mom and I used to watch her shows. We just love her.
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Thug: repeating Look, bud, I said 'Your money or your life.'
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The labour-power is a commodity, not capital, in the hands of the labourer, and it constitutes for him a revenue so long as he can continuously repeat its sale; it functions as capital after its sale, in the hands of the capitalist, during the process of production itself.
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Two lovers move in the crowd like a link of music,We press upon them, we hold them, and let them pass;A chord of music strikes us and straight we tremble;We tremble like wind-blown grass.
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Not surprisingly, some of the super-rich declined to join the Patriotic Millionaires when the Agenda Project reached out to them. At least two airily dismissed the Bush tax cuts for millionaires and above - which will cost well over $700 billion over the coming decade - as small potatoes.
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A form of reason that in some way wished to strip itself of beauty would be diminished; it would be a blinded reason.
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Dog is God spelled backward.
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In the early days of the New England colonies, no more embarrassing or hampering condition, no greater temporal ill, could befall any adult Puritan than to be unmarried.
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I'm interested in directing movies about situations that I've lived, so they are almost a personal essay about what I've come to believe in.
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Drag completely helps you explore your gender and allows you to do so in a freeing, kinda liberating way as well because you’re performing in front of an audience.
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Redwoods flourish in fog, but they don't like salt air. They tend to appear in valleys that are just out of sight of the sea. In their relationship with the sea, redwoods are like cats that long to be stroked but are shy to the touch.
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I have no control over the super PAC; all I do is write the check.
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I don't like lyrics that are just thrown together, that were obviously written as you went along, or the song was already written and the guy made up the lyrics in five minutes.
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To control your hormones is to control your life.
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To move from the oral to the written is to immobilise the body, to take control to possess it.
