Ellis Paul Quotes
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You have to free your mind to do things you wouldn't think of doing. Don't ever say no.
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People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.
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I like to roller skate. I have been roller skating since I was eight.
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No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.
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I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear.
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I had to learn that there is more to the human being than material comfort, more than success, more even than national spirit or patriotism. That in any being worthy of being human there is also a demand for justice, for liberty, and that justice needs the evidence of all our lives, liberty is one and indivisible and collective, and no one can talk of justice solely for expediency's sake, nor of liberty while human beings, anywhere else on earth, are still in bondage.
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There is a theory that basically says that we can shred regulations and consumer protections and give more and more to the most, and somehow prosperity will trickle down. It hasn't worked. And I think that the fundamentals of the economy have to be measured by whether or not the middle class is getting a fair shake.
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Nobody gets to threaten the full faith and credit of the United States just to extract political concessions.
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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist while still achieving milestones and outcomes as required by certain funders and policy-makers.
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For the first time in his life he was unable to think of himself as existing the next day. There would be a Eustace, he supposed, but it would be someone else, someone to whom things happened that he, the Eustace of to-night, knew nothing about. Already he he felt he had taken leave of the present. For a while he thought it strange that they should all talk to him about ordinary things in ordinary voices; and once when Minney referred to a new pair of sand-shoes he was to have next week he felt a shock of unreality, as though she had suggested taking a train that had long since gone.
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We are prudent people. We are afraid to let go of our petty reality in order to grasp at a great shadow.
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Happiness is more important than money any day.
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I wish to live to 150 years old, but the day I die, I wish it to be with a cigarette in one hand and a glass of whiskey in the other.
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Knowledge is governed not by a theory of knowledge, but by a theory of discursive practice.
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We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them.
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One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.
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I've always been drawn to the best writing that I can find. I don't care if it's in movies or theater or whatever - if you want to be in front of an audience, you have to do writing you believe in.
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Embrace what you have in common, celebrate what sets you apart.
