Lewis Tappan Quotes
You may imagine the joy manifested by these poor Africans, when they heard one of their own color address them in a friendly manner, and in a language they could comprehend!
Quotes to Explore
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Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
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Some people say I chastise the Republican Party too much.
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When I was really young, I wanted to grow up and be the sun. Which shows an early penchant for ambition or narcissism or grandiosity or delusion - all of which are bellwethers for becoming a writer.
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It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.
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I don't have a definition for depression. I'm productive, and that's not a sign of depression, right? And I don't have weeks where I don't leave my bed. It seems like depressed people have those.
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I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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I am thrilled to get the chance to write comics - and to tell Forgotten Realms tales, to boot!
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You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?
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My whole thing is being sexy without showing too much, because that's my comfort level.
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Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.
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Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
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Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.
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I just like a good story. I want the story to be good, and I want the character to be different than the last one I played. That's not always possible, but that's what I want.
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It is one thing to tell the citizens of some faraway country to go to hell, but it is another to do the same to your own citizens, who are supposedly your ultimate sovereigns.
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Legolas is fantastic to dress up in - of course he is - and I've had the best time playing him.
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Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.
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Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor.
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Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.
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To assume that any couple goes without arguing is just nonsense.
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I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically.
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I love my hair. But I don't even remember my original color because I started bleaching it so young. I was, like, 11.
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I'm more into MMA than any other sport. I watch a lot of the UFC fights. I have since it first came onto the scene.
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You may imagine the joy manifested by these poor Africans, when they heard one of their own color address them in a friendly manner, and in a language they could comprehend!
