Ali Shaheed Muhammad Quotes
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
Samuel Johnson
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I grew up with all kinds of people.
Vin Diesel
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My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.
Oprah Winfrey
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
Barbara Deming
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
Irvine Welsh
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Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training.
Harrison Salisbury
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I think a lot of theater actors that were great, like Walken or Glenn Close, later became film actors.
Sam Rockwell
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Do I trust Yasser Arafat? Of course not. Why should I? Why should anyone trust a politician, whether Shimon Peres, Ariel Sharon, Bill Clinton, Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, Benjamin Netanyahu, George W. Bush, or Yasser Arafat?
Ian Lustick
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I got to read some writings by serial killers, and they got inside my head. They were quite disturbing. I read disturbing stuff about that very detached way of manipulating people to do things.
Ralph Fiennes
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A lot of people think I was an overnight success, but I was an opening act for three or four years, and then I signed my contract with EMI. Then it kind of blew up overnight.
Vanilla Ice
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One experiments and has to choose always the best results.
Karlheinz Stockhausen
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A lot of my close friends are nothing to do with show business. But the people I've had relationships with, invariably, I've worked with. I think that's probably because I grew up in a family where we all worked together, so it's something I feel comfortable with.
Felicity Kendal
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Cerebus: The valuable lesson is that you can get what you want and still not be very happy... (p. 296)
Dave Sim
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If they were meant to be together they would find a way to do it.
Nicholas Sparks
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We've become slaves to words like 'local,' 'fresh,' and 'seasonal.' We all want to be Thomas Jefferson's agrarian hero, but sustainable food is a difficult beast.
Barton Seaver
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Some write a narrative of wars and feats, Of heroes little known, and call the rant A history.
William Cowper
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For the greater a man's works for the future, the less the present can comprehend them; the harder his fight, and the rarer success. If, however, once in centuries success does come to a man, perhaps in his latter days a faint beam of his coming glory may shine upon him. To be sure, these great men are only the Marathon runners of history; the laurel wreath of the present touches only the brow of the dying hero.
Adolf Hitler
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Kanye West, I love you. You might not have known, but I have said in other interviews that you're my hero.
Ali Shaheed Muhammad
A Tribe Called Quest
