Angela Davis Quotes
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Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.
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When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
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I'm not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy, and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred.
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Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.
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I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.
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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
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I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.
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The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.
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You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.
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I am happy that I have entertained people and made them happy.
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Life is just so much fun and so filled with humor.
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Stuxnet, a computer worm reportedly developed by the United States and Israel that destroyed Iranian nuclear centrifuges in attacks in 2009 and 2010, is often cited as the most dramatic use of a cyber weapon.
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Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.
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Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.
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If I wanted to know what a certain future would feel like to me, I would find someone who is already living that future. If I wonder what it's like to become a lawyer or marry a busy executive or eat at a particular restaurant, my best bet is to find people who have actually done these things and see how happy they are.
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Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better.
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When you have that long, flowing hair, you feel different - when you cut it, the framing of your face changes immediately.
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I have three dogs at home. Even after losing a series or winning a series, they treat me the same way.
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I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone.
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Politicians love power. I love freedom. That is why I am not a politician.
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To be on the road, even if you're not that happy, is all right, as long as I'm pourin' me heart into it.
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I liked you better when you were this timid little kid. What happened?” “I started living with you guys.” “Oh, right.
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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
