Gerald Horne Quotes
I shudder to think where we people of African descent would be without our allies in the international community. It's been our everything, quite frankly.
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Bodhisattva is enlightened in the Buddhist philosophy, religion, tradition. He's enlightened. It's fine - I don't really fight it - but many people use the term 'zen' and terms like 'nirvana,' 'enlightenment' in an almost superficial way. It's not that complicated.
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The difference between Amazon and us is Amazon is more like an empire - everything they control themselves, buy and sell.
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When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.
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When I went into the Montreal Games, nobody expected much out of me.
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I get inspiration from literally everything and anything. I take inspiration from people, relationships, stories, and I take inspiration from movies I see, books I read and songs I hear.
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If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.
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I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side.
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The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd.
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I came out even with all the struggles I endured on Rikers Island.
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My scientific pursuits have led to many opportunities and responsibilities beyond those of simply doing research. For example, as a beginning graduate student, it never occurred to me that the life of a scientist could involve so much travel, something that I have always loved.
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The ethics of journalism are one thing. Another thing is the ethics of business.
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I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill again.
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Something on mainstream radio is very in your face with the vocals. I tried that, and it just doesn't feel like Washed Out. It's got to have that haziness to it.
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I'm free to see things objectively because I don't consider myself American, and I don't consider myself British or Indian. I'm kind of an amalgam or mongrel of a lot of different places and experiences. In a lot of ways it's been a good thing for me. It's enabled me to do what I do on 'The Daily Show.'
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As an artist, you have to work hard for things that you can't really hold in your hand. I work not for money but for my career, to expand myself as an artist. Every video I make, it's not making me any money; it's just because I want to expand.
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You're always growing as a coach, and I am not done growing, and hopefully I'm not done winning.
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We've all got vices, and we're all freakin' trying.
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We are doing everything we can to protect the food supply. And I can tell you that we're making decisions based upon sound science and good public policy, given the circumstances that we are now in.
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For me, at the end of the day, I want to be judged for my work, not for what I've been through and past experiences, necessarily.
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Though our conduct seems so very different from that of the higher animals, the primary instincts are much alike in them and in us.
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There's quite a few artists that didn't pop off until they were a little older - Rick James being one.
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Most people, when they meet me, one of the first things they say is, 'Why would you voluntarily subject yourself to war? Why would you go into these places where you know there's a risk of getting killed?'
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[Islam] is the dynamic conviction that a person's spiritual and worldly responsibilities are one and the same, that an individuals duty to the community is indistinguishable from his or her duty to God.
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I shudder to think where we people of African descent would be without our allies in the international community. It's been our everything, quite frankly.
