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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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
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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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We're all idealistic when young.
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There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
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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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This country does not discriminate. No president, no officer in this country should hold office that has any hint of treating people differently because of the color of their skin or where they came from and that kind of thing. We believe in equality and fair treatment and that's the moral principle that we adhere to as a nation.
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There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.
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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me. It is an uncomfortable doctrine which the true ethics whisper into my ear. You are happy, they say; therefore you are called upon to give much.
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I always like a good song: puts me in a good mood.
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Even now, when I'm asked how I'm doing, I like to reply, 'Pretty good. I've got all my fingers and both eyes.
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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.
