bell hooks Quotes
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The world needs some help.
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I was never conscious that I was becoming an icon or I'm not an icon, because my family, my kids, my husband keep me down-to-earth.
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Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, when the critic is inferior to the writer.
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I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.
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I had been playing really interesting roles before I got great roles. Little ones - 'The Crying Game' I loved working on, and then 'Bird,' 'Ghost Dog,' so many films.
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I think the best thing I can hope to achieve is to educate, or make aware, as many people as possible on how the little things they do every day really do affect our environment, and how easy it is to fix some of those things.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
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My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'
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I think I would like to have lived in the 1930s and worn beautiful bias cut dresses all the time.
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
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No man may make another free.
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I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.
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Most historians and other writers of what we now consider 'primary sources' simply didn't think about women and their contribution to society. They took it for granted, except when that contribution or its lack directly affected men.
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With my job, I am designing spaces for families on a weekly basis, and that is where I get my creative outlet.
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I mean it's - it is hard to find a voice on talk radio that is not a conservative voice.
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As more and more people reach the Internet by mobile phone, we should make sure users are getting the open access they believe they're paying for.
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I don't think Iraq could be transformed overnight into a democracy. How can you take a country that doesn't have any kind of tradition of democracy, where its people have been brutalized and repressed for decades, and suddenly impose Jeffersonian ideals?
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I think people who multitask pay a huge price. They think they're being extra productive, and I think when you multitask so much you don't have time to think about anything deeply, you are giving the world an advantage you shouldn't do, and practically everybody is drifting into that mistake.
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It really fascinates me what white people are allowed to write about.
