Randolph Bourne Quotes
Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
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Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy.
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I usually get all my stress and anger out at the gym. But when I get out, I'm kind of a pleasant person - really.
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By nature, I'm a very positive person, and because I'm happy in myself, and in my life, and I've got a great husband, and beautiful children, and I have a job that I love that calls for a certain amount of emotional expression, I get to realise a lot of my dreams and aspirations.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
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From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
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I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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I feel there's enough seriousness in the world without seeing it in the theatre.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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Yes, I would agree that America, just like Spain was in the 17th Century, is the main empire of the world and they are the ones who, on the surface, are the most pushy: pushing their language, pushing their culture - or what there is of it - pushing by force their system on others.
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A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.
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With experience, you improve. I'm a better player now, more complete than I was when I was player of the year.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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This Islam business kidnapped me.
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My first love was acting. I went to Sidney Poitier films as a kid. I sat in the theater and dreamed of being an actor.
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I never wanted anything to do with the theatre as a child. I was dragged there under duress.
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I had said before that I'd never write an autobiography because I've been around, and there's a lot that I've seen and heard that stays with me. That's just mine. I didn't want to do a kiss-and-tell, as some of my peers have.
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The world can only appear monochromatic to those who persist in interpreting what they experience through the lens of a single cultural paradigm, their own. For those with the eyes to see and the heart to feel, it remains a rich and complex topography of the spirit.
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'Maybe his characteristics are recessive. Maybe ours will cancel his out.' 'I wouldn't lay any money on that,' Baines said. 'I think I know already which of the two strains is going to turn up dominant.' He grinned wryly. 'I mean, I'm making a good guess. It won't be us.'
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Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
