Anais Nin Quotes
Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
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As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences.
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Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
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If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you have to write, and if you're afraid it's going to upset someone, don't publish it.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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I couldn't live on the singing at first, so I worked as a cleaner, in a launderette, in a garage, face painting and doing the windows of shops at Christmas, 'cause I had been to art college.
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Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.
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We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
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This world is too hard for me to leave my kids, without me supervising and being there for them.
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But if I played well and prepared myself properly, then all I had to do was control myself and put myself in a position to win.
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In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.
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If you try to break into my house, you will be severely lacerated and possibly electrocuted, and I'm fine with that. Because if you're breaking into my house, you're on your own.
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The influence of teachers extends beyond the classroom, well into the future. It is they who shape and enrich the minds of the young, who touch their hearts and souls. It is they who shape a nation's future.
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Don't take 'no' for an answer.
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It is not often that idealism of student days finds adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood.
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Spike Lee gave me the greatest reaction to the fact that I was this athlete-meets-artist, because I think he saw that I was different. I learned that oftentimes, Spike directs in a sense that he might just stare at you and look at you in a telepathic way of communicating.
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Mom worked as a school librarian, and she felt summers were for education.
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There are very few actors who are truly good at improvising; that's a real skill.
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[T]he truth is that drug addicts have a disease. It only takes a short time in the streets to realize that out-of-control addiction is a medical problem, not a form of recreational or criminal behavior. And the more society treats drug addiction as a crime, the more money drug dealers will make "relieving" the suffering of the addicts.
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The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture.
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The truth is when I went to graduate school I would've said I was among the least talented of the students, I was certainly the least smart, or less educated. But I worked very hard.
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It's still hard for me to have a clear mind thinking on it. But it's the truth even if it didn't happen.
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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
