Elaine Equi Quotes
I think the more stability a person has, the more they can follow esoteric or intellectual pursuits.
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Hopefully, film inspires you to think about human nature. It make us consider how we treat strangers and our most intimate.
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Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all.
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I really want to try soccer after I retire because I've watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender.
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The hardest part when I decided to move into acting was trusting I'd made the right decision.
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To fund major cultural efforts, we must not rely alone on government and foundation patronage; if the farmer can spend for beer, he can pay for good entertainment which he can understand, which he can identify with and which will fortify his spirit.
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I am different because I have better schooling, better understanding of the line, gesture, how feet working, positions. They taught me modern things... and I wanted to give what I had: my schooling.
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Sin is blatant mutiny against God, and either sin or God must die in my life.
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There's the National Organization for Women feminist faction, there's the NAACP liberal African-American faction, there's the La Raza Hispanic faction. They're pitted against each other and it runs so contrary to the E pluribus unum American middle class experience.
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The aim of love is to love. No more, no less.
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In so many ways I'm just thankful for common sense. Common sense keeps you out of trouble.
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...One of the side effects of (surgery, anesthesia,) X-ray..., and chemotherapy, is the suppression...of the patient's immunological defenses...A simple cold often leads to the death from pneumonia - and ('pneumonia') is what appears on the death certificate, not cancer.
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One of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself.
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Sometimes I don't know whether I'm thening or knowing.
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Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat.
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No one can tell me what to do on my skateboard. My skateboard is my safe spot. I can learn tricks, I can have fun, I can do whatever I want on my skateboard.
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Unless people are prepared to declare themselves your enemies you have to hunt around for them.
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Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment. All that remains of my mother is what I remember and what I have written for and about her. Eventually that is all that will remain of [my husband] and me. Writing sometimes feels frivolous and sometimes sacred, but memory is one of my strongest muses. I serve her with my words. So long as people read, those we love survive however evanescently. As do we writers, saying with our life's work, Remember. Remember us. Remember me.
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Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.
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For future geopolitical stability and global prosperity, we need to build a culture of greater trust and understanding between China, America and the rest of the world.
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I think the more stability a person has, the more they can follow esoteric or intellectual pursuits.
