Audre Lorde Quotes
I am who I am, doing what I came to do, acting upon you like a drug or chisel to remind you of your me-ness as I discover you in myself.
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Sometimes I don't know whether a movie has been shot on film or in digital when I watch it in the theatres.
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I remember someone once said there is a practical aspect to my designs, and I remember thinking, 'That doesn't sound so creative,' but that is actually the truth. There is a practicality to it. I don't design just to design. There is a reason and, hopefully, an interesting reason behind it - that is where my creativity comes in.
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I had to learn to not be so hard. And I had a wife and, at that time, a partner when Samori was born, and for most of Samori's life, a partner, who, for whatever reason, did not have to learn that and was very tender and very, very soft with him.
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You do a job; your show gets canceled. You get used to it.
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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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There's a science fiction project we really want to make, but it's very expensive. Hopefully it will happen.
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I come from the stage, so I started in New York, lived there for eleven years.
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Even at the end of a presidential election campaign, we have no way to know what Mitt Romney really believes.
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We are all fools when one wise man appears.
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Nothing of value is free. It is very easy, Mr. Chairman, to convince people that it is in their best interest to give away somebody else's property for nothing, but even the most guileless among us know that this is a cave of illusion where commonsense is lured and then quietly strangled.
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The self-surmounter can never put up with the man who has ceased to be dissatisfied with himself.
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I once knew a girl In the years of my youth With eyes like the summer All beauty and truth In the morning I fled Left a note and it read Someday you will be loved.
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Monsieur … I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.
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Unless we are free from fear we will not be able to give our children the kind of future that we would like them to have.
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I'm not the best singer, but I like the way I sing my songs.
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I feel like we always kept our core philosophy of making content that we would wanna watch, and there's definitely a different scale we are offering that at today.
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Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.
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To start with, pharma was an industry based on innovation, drug discovery.
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With respect to drugs, you know, there are a lot of organizations, including an enormous budget and an army at the federal government level that tries to deal with the drug problem.
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If we get both of those guys back by the end of the week, great. If not, we'll have to wait until they're ready.
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I tell 'Hansel and Gretel' stories about heroic children who are lost in a world that seems friendly at first, and then isn't.
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Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
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I am who I am, doing what I came to do, acting upon you like a drug or chisel to remind you of your me-ness as I discover you in myself.
