Brian Thompson Quotes
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When think about the Frank Oceans of the world, it's not like we don't have gay men within the hip-hop community.
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I think....living in such a hard situation when there are terrorists and they slaughter people every night is still hard - is still a threat. So it's a better idea to speak out for your rights and then die...we will speak out for our rights. This is what we can do, and we tried our best.
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The simple hearth of the small farm is the true center of our universe.
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Thriftless ambition, that wilt ravin up Thine own life's means!
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The possessions God allows us to have are intended for our use, not our enjoyment. Trying to squeeze something out of them that was never in them in the first place is a futile endeavor. A cow's udders, gently pressed, will yield sweet milk, nourishing and refreshing. Applying more and more pressure will not produce greater quantities of milk. We lose the good of material things by expecting too much from them. Those who try hardest to please themselves with earthly goods find the least satisfaction in them.
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But to put out a greatest hits on one CD was totally impossible, I just couldn't do it. The best compromise was to put out two CDs - Early Days - which is what it is - and Latter Days.
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In teaching an honors writing class, I juxtaposed Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein with Shelley Jackson’s Patchwork Girl, an electronic hypertext fiction written in proprietary Storyspace software. Since these were honors students, many of them had already read Frankenstein and were, moreover, practiced in close reading and literary analysis. When it came to digital reading, however, they were accustomed to the scanning and fast skimming typical of hyper reading; they therefore expected that it might take them, oh, half an hour to go through Jackson’s text. They were shocked when I told them a reasonable time to spend with Jackson’s text was about the time it would take them to read Frankenstein, say, ten hours or so. I divided them into teams and assigned a section of Jackson’s text to each team, telling them that I wanted them to discover all the lexias (i.e., blocks of digital text) in their section and warning them that the Storyspace software allows certain lexias to be hidden until others are read. Finally, I asked them to diagram interrelations between lexias, drawing on all three views that the Storyspace software enables. As a consequence, the students were not only required to read closely but also to analyze the narrative strategies Jackson uses to construct her text.
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I hope and pray that mother nature is leaving us alone to get on with the job of cleaning up and recovering from this event.
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The true sovereign is not the American president nor the English king, but the Lord of the Second Advent.
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In New York alone, there was an average of more than 300 campus fires per year between 1997 and 2000, with roughly 160 of them annually in dormitories.
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If you go to a college campus and you do stop and frisk, you're going to find a lot of drugs there too.
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The new campus is largely in response to the growth in population Central Florida has experienced.
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You need only visit campuses where whole departments feature soft courses preaching a sense of victimhood and resentment, and see the consequences in racial and ethnic polarization on campus.
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I believe America went wrong in terms of respecting the First Amendment, the state of free speech on American college campuses and on the media and in academia.
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I get why people want to come see me play guitar, but I still don't understand why people want to interview me.
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Over 600 Indian companies have opened their offices in U.K. and have secured the second highest number of jobs by a foreign employer in the U.K.
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They love you when you're doing well and hate you when you're the bad guy.
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Knowledge is recognizing what you know and what you don't.
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No man ever sailed over exactly the same route that another sailed over before him; every man who starts on the ocean of life arches his sails to an untried breeze.
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I certainly wouldn't want a song that I'd already written to be used on a commercial. That seems strange.
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Sometimes you also work with people who don't explain or express to you what they're actually looking for from the shot but you haven't got that problem with this because whatever you're going to do, whether it's good or bad, will get picked up. So, in that way I guess it's pure cinema.
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The student center will serve as a place to pull the campus together.
