Elijah Muhammad Quotes
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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I took the position from day one that it was the right decree, that the modifications I made to the decree were proper, that the correct outcome had been obtained, and that in due time all of that would become apparent. And it has become apparent.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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I've been asked to interview for many managing jobs, and I never said yes because I was never serious about it, and I thought it would be wrong to go through that process.
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When a man wrote a political screed against the IRS and flew into its building, he was deemed mentally ill, even though it was clearly a political act. There's a double standard, which is: If his name is Muhammad, it's automatically terrorism.
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The dilemma for early 21st century journalism is this: Who will pay for the news?
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice.
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Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
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Cate Blanchett is somebody who I could watch do anything. I love what an extraordinary chameleon she can be. There's something about the way she bends and transforms that feels otherworldly to me.
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My mother was born in Wilmington, Delaware. She's a U.S. citizen, so I'm a U.S. citizen.
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Act so that the effects of your actions are compatible with the permanence of genuine human life.
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Imagine being told that it hadn’t mattered whether the Christians or the Moors got Spain! I can still remember my shock. I got over it fairly quickly, though, because by that time I had learned enough history to know that in the long run it never mattered a damn where any particular race of people planted its collective ass.
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Money is therefore not only the object but also the fountainhead of greed.
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'I’ve never seen a soft heart turn hard,' said Taleswapper. 'At least not without good reason.'
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There is a month, a year, there is a time In which majesty is a mirror of the self: I have not but I am and as I am, I am.
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A man should be upright, not kept upright.
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I divide all literary works into two categories: Those I like and those I don’t like. No other criterion exists for me.
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I don't know what it's like to be God - obviously …until that very first moment when you get to sit down and type the words in your script: INTERIOR. TARDIS. … Suddenly I got a very good idea of what it must feel like. I went: 'I'm writing it now this scene in the Tardis. I'm writing it!' And that was amazing, it was wonderful.
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It's hard no to work, so I find a way to put myself back to work. And I think it's important, in between projects, for me to sit down with who I've just become and allow her to continue to evolve and find a home inside me before I go and become somebody else. But I think I also need to learn to relax and not prepare too much, just enjoy life. I notice that my characters go out to dinner and have fun and take these great trips, but I spend so much time on their lives, I don't have much of a personal life of my own. I have to sort of remember to fill out that little notebook on me.
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According to Washington insiders, White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan could be the next official to leave the Bush administration. McClellan says he'd like to spend more time lying for his family.
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My philosophy is to treat people how you want to be treated.
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Whoever is humble to men for God's sake, may God exalt his eminence.
