George Elliott Clarke Quotes
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What a world this will be when human possibilities are freed, when we discover each other, when the stranger is no longer the potential criminal and the certain inferior!
W. E. B. Du Bois -
I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.
Foster Friess -
After 'The Sisters Brothers,' I tried to write a contemporary story dealing with an investment adviser in New York City who moves to Paris. I did all this research, but after about a year and any number of pages written, I was bored stiff.
Patrick deWitt -
If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.
Wayne Huizenga -
Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.
Irwin Shaw -
I should have been a much better artist if I could have studied more and amused myself less.
Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
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In a novel, if you're any good, you don't just have good people or bad people. You have complicated people. You have real people.
Salman Rushdie -
Preying on the grievances of disaffected young men is the bedrock of Islamism.
Maajid Nawaz -
But you have to allow a little for the desire to evangelize when you think you have good news.
Larry Wall -
I never for a moment considered not doing the show. When I did the show I became very emotional. Some of the lyrics suddenly took on an entirely different meaning. Words like, 'as if we never said goodbye' became more real.
Elaine Paige -
I can’t tell you if the stories are true. Men lie without meaning to. They talk as if they had been part of a thing that happened to someone they never knew and only heard of by sixth remove.
Leigh Brackett -
A woman carries her clothes. But the shoe carries the woman.
Christian Louboutin
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The breadth of the potential readership is also a factor.
Mark Millar -
I have been singing for as long as I could talk.
Delta Goodrem -
Studios never put pressure. They know the kind of films I want to make.
Anurag Kashyap -
We may regard the solar systems as separate sponges, swimming in a World of Divine Spirit, and thus it will be apparent that in order to travel from one solar system to another, it would be necessary to be able to function consciously in the highest vehicle of man, the Divine Spirit.
Max Heindel -
ABC Family is really restructuring their network because there's a new kind of family, so I think they're really trying to step away from that younger audience, and they're bringing a network that can bring more to an older demographic.
Matt Dallas -
Books cannot always please, however good;Minds are not ever craving for their food.
George Crabbe
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I will not vote against the truths of the multiplication table.
James A. Garfield -
Woman's weakness, not man's merit, oftenest gains the suitor's victory.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas -
When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.
James Earl Jones -
I just wanted to kind of break down those gender stereotypes and just say everyone's equal, everyone's their own person, everyone's their own individual.
Little Simz -
You have to find something that you want to accomplish, that you want to achieve. You want to drop 15 pounds. You want to be able to run four miles. There has to be some goal that you set for yourself and, after you've reached that goal, you set a new one. You always have to be shooting for something, striving for something.
Larry Fitzgerald -
A symbolic victory is still a victory.
George Elliott Clarke