Gene Sharp Quotes
You have a chance of learning -- if you want to and youre not arrogant.
Gene Sharp
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I definitely had to do some soul searching, and there would be a lot of times where I would sit back and look at the Internet and say to myself, 'This is a way of being able to communicate with all my fans all over the world, other than just being in New York and only hearing the New York side of things.'
Raekwon
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I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.
Sam Heughan
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The press in India, I believe, is more free, and happily so, than perhaps media anywhere in the world. Right? Which is a good thing.
Kapil Sibal
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.
Karen Armstrong
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Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.
J. G. Ballard
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The partner that you have is supposed to make you a better person, and when you're happy, you're a better person.
Bai Ling
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I could scrape water off horses all day long. That would never get boring.
Victoria Pendleton
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Obviously Hall & Oates wasn't overlooked by the masses in terms of the record sales.
Inara George
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In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu.
Ferran Adria
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
Zendaya
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Unlike Milan, Italy's banking capital, or Rome, its religious center, Florence was the place where the rich went to buy goods that would showcase how wealthy they were.
Hanya Yanagihara
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In 70s America, protest used to be very effective, but in subsequent decades municipalities have sneakily created a web of 'overpermiticisation' - requirements that were designed to stifle freedom of assembly and the right to petition government for redress of grievances, both of which are part of our first amendment.
Naomi Wolf
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After being rejected for years, I found a publisher for 'Keeper,' and it won prizes, and then I had to write a second and a third book because I kept taking the money and spending it.
Mal Peet
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Seriously I suspected I was a good actor, though I didn't know it during 'Monsoon Wedding.' Now I realize the more I learn, the less I know about acting... and life.
Randeep Hooda
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I think it's time that we all be there for the children, to learn from the ones who came before us, and to teach our sons and daughters to have respect for themselves.
Ja Rule
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I had never been able to truly hate anyone who’d suffered, no matter what evils they’d done in the aftermath.
N. K. Jemisin
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Whether or not we can get together, remember well that art 'lives' where absolute freedom is. With all the training thrown to nowhere, with a mind (if there is such a verbal substance) perfectly unaware of its own working, with the 'self' vanishing nowhere, the art of JKD attains its perfection.
Bruce Lee
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I've started several small businesses myself and know that it is tough out there for the little guy in the global economy. I came to the conclusion that, oftentimes, the best thing the government can do for small business is to stay out of the way.
Jared Polis
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A dream doesn't become a goal until it is written.
Edwin Louis Cole
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Being an actor, imitating to the point of inhabiting the lives of others, may simply be a way of continuing to do what I learned to do as a boy - to travel, mentally and physically.
Viggo Mortensen
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I think, as a director, it's always worth pushing yourself and finding out new areas and exploring new ways to tell story.
James Bobin
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I look at John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters, guys who had a fantastic longevity, and I learned something from them. They didn't try to sell records. They weren't saying, 'Ok, what can I write, what can I do in the studio that will sell?' They were just doing their thing, and people picked up on it. I like the idea of that.
Paul Rodgers
Bad Company
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When I first went to 'National Geographic,' I thought I was the least qualified person to step through the doors. But because of my parents and the culture of continual learning they imposed on us, I later came to believe I was the most qualified person who ever worked there.
Sam Abell
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You have a chance of learning -- if you want to and youre not arrogant.
Gene Sharp
