Elia Suleiman Quotes
I don't particularly have a good memory. I think history is many times just the text written by the victors. I wanted to counter that aspect.
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There are a lot of mindless moments in my tunes.
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'Material' is meant to be a fun, lighthearted song about the tiny bit of materialism that's in all of us. The message is meant to translate the notion that you don't need luxury items to feel special; you already are special.
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Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
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But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.
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I am a movie fan across the board, though, so if a movie is well done then I love it and it does not really matter what the genre is.
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Really, the '70s and '80s were a blur.
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We must speed up the time table for fathers, brothers and sons to provide their mothers, daughters and sisters with the same opportunities that they give themselves.
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I'm not at the hoarder stage, but there are two or three storage units here and there. I have things that a lot of people put a lot of heart and soul into, a lot of mental energy. I'm good at keeping those things. When it comes to pop culture, as you move through this fast lane, you wonder where it all goes and how you can hold onto it.
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Our laws guarantee all students the right to a K-12 education, regardless of their immigration status.
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People call me a hermit. But I'm happy.
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My mom and dad - they were always there. They were always on the set. They focused on our family life. The entertainment business wasn't the end-all. They weren't out to get the next big paycheck or the next big movie. It was about 'What can we do as a family.'
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It is past time that consumers recognize the emerging power of 'Made In America' products and services. The nation's shopping list needs this header: Check out what is made here before you 'go' overseas.
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Writers in Britain aren't really celebrities. You become kind of a darling of a small set.
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I can't play guitar if I blow my arm out.
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The threat is desertification. My response is a sandstone wall made from solidified sand.
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I believe in my writing.
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That ev'n my buried Ashes such a snare Of Vintage shall fling up into the Air As not a True-believer passing by But shall be overtaken unaware.
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Dating, as we justly may, a new era in the history of man from the Fourth of July, 1776, it would be well, that is, it would be useful, if on each anniversary we examined the progress made by our species in just knowledge and just practice.
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People ask me, 'Why don't you take time off?' but the working class doesn't take time off. They're out there working every day. That's what I do, too. I want them to know there is hope, and I'm out there just like they are.
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The people will come to their own at last,-God is not mocked forever.
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It's hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship so quickly as we have with our phones.
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If he is convicted, Dr. Kevorkian says he will die a martyr's death by going on a hunger strike.
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I don't particularly have a good memory. I think history is many times just the text written by the victors. I wanted to counter that aspect.
