bell hooks Quotes
To live fixated on the future is to engage in psychological denial. It is a form of psychic violence that prepares us to accept the violence needed to ensure the maintenance of imperialist, future-oriented society.

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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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I guess I crave stability.
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What I want is for people to really grab hold of language and not be nervous about it. 'The Word Spy' is all about diving in and playing with words.
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Though it has plenty of competitors, Slack claims to be the 'fastest growing business application in history'.
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I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
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The French complain of everything, and always.
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I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved.
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I'm not at all a hero. I'm a wussy.
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Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.
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A lot of people don't like me.
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A man who gives himself to be a possession of aliens leads a Yahoo life, having bartered his soul to a brute-master. He is not of them. He may stand against them, persuade himself of a mission, batter and twist them into something which they, of their own accord, would not have been.
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There's still is a status-quo group at City Hall who likes things done the old way, behind closed doors.
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You gotta give everybody a new trend a new wave, something new to do.
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I should have a better CV, and that's knocked me into believing that I have to grab these opportunities while I can.
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I'm like a packrat with work. I hoard my jobs.
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I like to tread uncharted territory and push myself in terms of performance.
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There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.
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That's a comic cover's job: Attract someone's attention and persuade them to try the issue out.
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Politics and more politics - that's how you work towards the building of agreements.
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I'm a big Ping-Pong addict. I love it.
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When a chivalrous man makes an oath, he is faithful to it, and when he attains power, he spares his enemy.
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A lot of times, in our culture and our society, we put romantic love somehow on a higher plane than self-love and friendship love. You can't do that. You have to honor and really fully invest in all these different loving relationships.
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I don't often get involved with campaigns at all.
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To live fixated on the future is to engage in psychological denial. It is a form of psychic violence that prepares us to accept the violence needed to ensure the maintenance of imperialist, future-oriented society.