Angela Davis Quotes
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I got a divorce, and I felt like I finally started my career. I started making movies and projects that I just really believed in.
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Being vegan is a glorious adventure. It touches every aspect of my life - my relationships, how I relate to the world.
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Success is not two cars or a swimming pool. It's the approval of your peers.
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You love him," he says. Not an asking, just a fact. "I do," I say. Also a fact.
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The origin of corruption in politics is surely in the thought that you are the bearer of ultimate virtue.
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Our government has to be held accountable for enforcing the law. Tamir Rice, the fact that they could exonerate that police person [who killed him], and Tamir's family was charged for the ambulance to take him [to the hospital]. It's inhumane.
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Let the love of Allah heal you. And free you.
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George Carlin is kind of my template now because George Carlin before was straight laced regular comic and he had short hair, a tie, suit, nightclub guy. Then he said screw it, let his hair grow, just started telling what he thought was the truth. So that's what I'm trying to do.
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Men of sound sense have Law for their god, but men without sense Pleasure.
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Certainly great persons had need to borrow other men's opinions to think themselves happy; for if they judge by their own feeling, they cannot find it: but if they think with themselves what other men think of them, and that other men would fain be as they are, then they are happy as it were by report, when, perhaps, they find the contrary within.
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To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher.
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Why did God make so many dumb fools and Democrats?
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Boxing brought me money and fame, but it never brought me no happiness.
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No wonder I stopped keeping a journal. It was like keeping a record of my own stupidity. Why would I want to do that? Why would I want to remind myself what an asshole I was?
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I want you to appreciate what you're up against. You will have to succeed where multitudes have failed. You'll have to accomplish something that the mightiest wizard in the history of Lyrian didn't dare to attempt.
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Learn respect for the feeling function: Become aware of and undo some of your (improper) cultural training so that you grant the moods and messages of the heart the same respect that you give the thoughts and ideas of the mind.
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I'm suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
