Elijah Muhammad Quotes
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All of my friends, I consider childhood friends because we met when I was probably 13, and I'm still friends with them today. It's really nice that I have that core group.
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I'm such a happy, easygoing person.
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I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
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Robots are good at things that are structured.
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Socialism requires that government becomes your god.
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I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.
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I got typecast early in my career as the guy who is very intense. Once you get into a certain mold, people see you that way, as much as it's disproved time and again.
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Writing is not like acting, where you can pull these little stunts that create a particular effect. Words are all it is about, and the way you use words has to be individual and particular to you.
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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
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I think I've learned the difference between the things I can control and the things I can't control. And hopefully, by doing the things I can control well, I'll have more favor in the other category.
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One of the things that I really like about young adult fiction is that you can explore the relationships between teens and their parents. I definitely think that teens are a product of their parents. You either end up just like them or you consciously make the decision to be unlike them.
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I do love traveling, so I've been able to travel a lot.
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Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.
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You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe.
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I hate how late we have our Olympic Trials, always have.
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They thought that athletes that worked out with my system wouldn't be able to throw a ball because they'd be too muscle bound. Those are the misconceptions I had to go through for about 40 years.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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As a competitor, I want to continue to keep turning the chapters and keep challenging myself.
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The beauty about living in Atlanta is that there aren't too many paparazzi here; you can just relax. And that really works for me and my children.
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We don't have to See eye to eye to Agree.
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Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
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I have a lot of friends who are infected with HIV, and you wanna protect them... To increase the awareness of it and to find a cure for it, the human lives we would save would be a really awesome thing. You just have to involve yourself as much as you can.
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When you write for yourself, it's 100 percent all your essence.
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Accept your own and be yourself!
