Georgi Plekhanov Quotes
Only the person who does not evade conflict and directs his efforts in keeping with the course of society's development can be an effective leader.
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I'm the 1st black platinum artist in Detroit, solo artist in Detroit.
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New Year's Eve, we're going to be doing a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Symphony Hall. It makes me feel good, because of all the people they could have had, they wanted me! We do have to do a little work with the rhythm section.
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As a musician usually music is your way out.
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I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.
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I got beat up sometimes in the girls' bathroom.
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I formally proposed. I'm a good Southern gentleman.
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I consider myself very lucky, essentially - I was put into a pop group even though my musical taste was very niche before.
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What scares me? Oh, now that's a big question. I don't know what scares me – cockroaches, nuclear apocalypse. Fear is an interesting thing. It has a place in all of our lives. I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try.
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I will not claim I will solve all the world's problems by myself. If I did, I'd have to run as a Republican or a Democrat.
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What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves.
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I was on morning TV for 10 years in Chicago.
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I started out in graduate school to be a fiction writer. I thought I wanted to write short stories. I started writing poems at that point only because a friend of mine dared me to write a poem. And I took the dare because I was convinced that I couldn't write a good poem... And then it actually wasn't so bad.
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I've never been afraid of much, and like any normal kid, I liked to push the limits of what I could do.
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Atlanta embraced us. We have so much respect for them, and they have respect for us.
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There are games where I go a whole game without saying a word. There are games where I'm talking the whole game. It really depends on the mood and vibe that I'm in that day.
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Natural gas is great for America in so many ways.
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Every day I do something that freaks me out.
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In case of separation, why should the children be taken from the protecting care of the mother? Who has a better right to them than she? How much do fathers generally do toward bringing them up?
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We don't ask the actor playing James Bond what his sexual preference is. So I don't know what it is, really, with trying to out actors who portray gay characters on television. But it is some sort of fascination in society.
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Dorothy Day, of blessed memory, did not like to be called (as she often was, for good reason) a saint, because it usually meant that she was not being taken seriously. She heard it as an accusation — a device ostensibly distinguishing her from ordinary people so as to simultaneously discount her words and deeds while exempting others from moral responsibility to speak and act.
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I have changed my definition of tragedy. I now think tragedy is not foul deeds done to a person (usually noble in some manner) but rather that tragedy is irresolvable conflict.
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I hang out with dudes a lot. I can relate to being the guys girl.
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Only the person who does not evade conflict and directs his efforts in keeping with the course of society's development can be an effective leader.
