Ethel Person Quotes
Love is an act of imagination. For some of us, it will be the greatest creative triumph of our lives.
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Acting is in your soul.
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I've stopped caring about skeptics, but if they libel or defame me they will end up in court.
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'Mahershala' is my nickname.
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I'm not really a food connoisseur.
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A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.
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There is nothing better than walking out and hitting a home run.
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No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.
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I am very concerned that federal and state air quality programs do not consider public health in regulating certain classes of industrial air emissions.
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I was aiming for the cooks that I've talked to by teaching an online course and by traveling, listening to people who are really busy and harried but want to be cooking.
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No two notes are ever the same volume. With the guitar, you really have to model in your mind this wider thing; you're trying to create the illusion of a bigger dynamic range.
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I try to be athletic.
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Keeping house is as unpleasant and filthy as coal mining, and the pay's a lot worse.
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Resolved to die in the last dike of prevarication.
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A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible. (Certain, possible, impossible: here we have the first indication of the scale that we need in the theory of probability.) (4.464)
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'Misunderstanding of the present is the inevitable consequence of ignorance of the past. But a man may wear himself out just as fruitlessly in seeking to understand the past, if he is totally ignorant of the present...This faculty of understanding the living is, in very truth, the master quality of the historian.'
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I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.
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I really believe God called on me to coach, and that is the reason I stayed in it for so long.
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Good music is very close to primitive language.
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I like something about George W. Bush. A lot. After spending more than a decade having almost physiological-chemical reactions anytime I saw him, getting the heebie-jeebies whenever he spoke - after being sure from the start that he was a Gremlin on the wing of America - I really like the paintings of George W. Bush.
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Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale.
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Coming of age as a young queer man of color, it was a rarity to see any reflections of myself portrayed in mainstream media. Turning on the television or going to the movies was an escape into the imagination, yet it did not allow me a place of true connection to what I was viewing on the screen in front of me.
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Love is an act of imagination. For some of us, it will be the greatest creative triumph of our lives.
