Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Quotes
I've heard of many people who claim they'd as soon their children were dead as gay. What it took me a long time to believe is that these people are saying no more than the truth. They even speak for others too delicate to use the cruel words.
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In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
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In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.
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So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple.
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As far as my journal, I want to share tour life with my fans.
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I had never done a roast, but I really wanted to, because it's so different from standup.
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To all my people back in Nashville who have been there from the start, you put your faith in me. You were there for the long haul.
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Pray to Christ for me that the animals will be the means of making me a sacrificial victim for God.
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I remember going into a bookshop, and the only book I saw with a black child on the cover was 'A Thief in the Village' by James Berry, and I thought, 'Is this still the state of publishing?' Then I thought, 'Either I can whine about it or try to do something about it.'
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War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
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I genuinely want to do my best every day, and I genuinely want to enjoy life every day.
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I studied really hard. But Hollywood never appreciated my talent.
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I cannot salute the flag; I know that I am a black man in a white world. In 1972, in 1947, at my birth in 1919, I know that I never had it made.
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All the time I was playing the flute, the lines, the solos, the riffs, the construction, were based on my guitar skills. I did not play the flute to exploit its natural faculties, but I used it as a surrogate guitar.
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The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the form of books still remains one of humanity's most enduring legacies.
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And most of my early pictures failed but about one in a 100 somehow looked better than what I saw.
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We are not giving up on the Coyotes in the Greater Phoenix Area... The team has got a number of options and is going to pursue them, so nobody should think that team is moving other than out of Glendale.
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The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.
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Philosophy, n. A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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I have very strongly this feeling... that our everyday life is at one and the same time banal, overfamiliar, platitudinous and yet mysterious and extraordinary.
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I became friends with the leader of the underground vampire world. He had a fangsmith, so I had a pair made... It has become kind of my signature thing.
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It's like 60 Minutes on acid.
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We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ignorant, to keep ourselves from not shining. We are so afraid of our beauty and radiance and brilliance because it scared the adults around us when we were children.
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Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.
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I've heard of many people who claim they'd as soon their children were dead as gay. What it took me a long time to believe is that these people are saying no more than the truth. They even speak for others too delicate to use the cruel words.
