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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If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.
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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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If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
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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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Polonium is, frankly, pretty useless, and no country in the world except Russia bothered to refine it by the late 2000s.
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It's a shame when other people's gambling habits change the meaning of paintings or when fluctuations of value start to dictate how people perceive art because it's too expensive to be interesting or moving. That's when I get bummed out.
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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 never grew up thinking, 'One day I will play so and so' because I wasn't expecting to be an actor at all.
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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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People pump gas and then they go in the store and pick up some things and pay for them, and they forget to mention the gas.
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I have encountered those who feel that libraries have served their purpose and are no longer needed. There are those who consider them a soft target when it comes to local authority budget cuts. In certain political quarters, there is a refusal to see that our public library service needs active protection.
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Now I truly believe that we in this generation must come to terms with nature, and I think we're challenged, as mankind has never been challenged before, to prove our maturity and our mastery, not of nature but of ourselves.
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For some reason, I just lack that ability to be embarrassed about going up to people. I even do it for friends if they want to ask someone out.
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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.
