Eric Voegelin Quotes
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Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.
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Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
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I certainly don't want our nation to go into default, but at the same time, I'm very concerned about our ongoing debt problem.
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The goal has been not to get pigeonholed. I like working in different genres. I'm gonna try to be entertaining and funny and do my usual thing.
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America is a meritocracy.
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If we want girls to receive positive reinforcement for early acts of leadership, let's discourage bossy behavior along with banning bossy labels. That means teaching girls to engage in behaviors that earn admiration before they assert their authority.
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The compulsively readable events of my life occurred mainly in infancy, and it's been pretty humdrum ever since.
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I love the road. That's always been my goal. I've said that to many record labels. I want to make records. The road is my favorite. Some people hate the road, I love the road.
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I love to get on tracks with brothers like Inspectah Deck, Masta Killa, the GZA. The whole crew is golden, man. When you think of us, you gotta say, 'Yo, these are the Jacksons of hip-hop.'
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I have a pretty good family. But ever since I was little, I just felt like I wanted to be on my own. It was the same thing about school.
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It was Africa distilled up through six thousand feet like the strong and refined essence of a continent... The views were immensely wide - everything that you saw made for greatness and freedom, and unequalled nobility.
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A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.
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I think Beyonce always looks great.
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In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.
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I use what God had given me. I don't wish for anything else. I don't wish I can be a high-flier.
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I think social media is so important; the young bands have certainly embraced that and used that to their advantage.
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I had a very dysfunctional family, and a very hard childhood. So I made a world out of words. And it was my salvation.
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The road to energy efficiency is, in theory, a sustainability sweepstake. More efficiency means that less fuel is required to generate a given amount of energy, which in turn means lower costs for the provider and cheaper prices for the customers.
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I'm so lucky I got a career in my 30s because these young girls aren't allowed to have their 20s. It's all being documented.
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Touring is not easy, as you always have a certain yearning for home no matter how beautiful the location you are in, but I have pushed myself to the limits and am certainly more aware of myself as a result.
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Somewhere back at the beginning I was chosen to be Jester, and there is only one Jester at a time in Diaspar. Most people think that is one too many.
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When I grew up, we didn't even talk about being gay. I didn't even hear the word lesbian when I was little. So to me, that's such huge progress to see everyone wanting to be on the right side of transgender history.
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From the nation they draw all the benefits of civilisation, enlightenment, progress, and social and political institutions, as well as advances in the arts and sciences.
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The death of the spirit is the price of progress.
