Elliot S. Maggin Quotes
There is a right and a wrong in the universe, and the distinction between the two is not that difficult to make.
Quotes to Explore
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Life is a school of probability.
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Remember when Jay-Z wore a Che Guevara T-shirt? Nobody knew who Che was. Then Jay-Z wears it, and it's everywhere.
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When I was rising eighteen I persuaded my parents to let me return to Australia and at least see whether I could adapt myself to life on the land before going up to Cambridge.
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Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid.
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
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Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.
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Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
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I hope to do big action movies and strong dramas, and to produce films. I also want to get kids more involved in what's going on in the world and to be politically active.
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My mom has every issue of 'Billboard' I've ever been in.
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Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.
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All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.
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An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.
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When I was a kid, like 14 or 15, I played with the waiters from the hotel, 'cause that was the best game. And these guys, they'd let me play. And they were black guys.
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I'm not afraid to admit that I'm a relatively slow reader.
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I always wonder if my kids will say they're mixed or black.
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Personally, I believe people who have a lots of memories are people who are living with zest.
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My mom got me into some commercials, and I basically, I guess, just got out of my shell I was in at the time because I can't remember. I've just been blessed ever since.
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When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have.
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Listening is self-empowerment via the empowerment of others.
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Shut up, be happy. Obey all orders without question. The happiness you have demanded is now mandatory.
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
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It's hard to write haiku. I write long, silly Indian poems.
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Do you know what it is sir? Do you know what the Dance Dance Revolution is? It's not an actual revolution, so you don't have to worry about that. It's not like a bunch of Asians are going to knock on your door 'Hey! Start dancing!'
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There is a right and a wrong in the universe, and the distinction between the two is not that difficult to make.
