Bob Marley Quotes
I don't have a religion, you know. This is what I am. I am a Rastaman; so this is not religion. This is life.
Quotes to Explore
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.
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Textbooks are going to remain a key part of learning. They just need to go digital, become more interactive and they need more analytics.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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If a topic hits me, I'll start going on it. But you can't force it.
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I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.
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Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenager, the age that my books are aimed at.
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We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.'
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I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read.
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For most of my 20s, I looked like I was 12. Now that I'm pushing 40, I guess I look closer to... 15? It must be my macrobiotic diet. Oh, wait, except that I don't have one of those.
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There are really three parts to the creative process. First there is inspiration, then there is the execution, and finally there is the release.
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It is not true that we shall necessarily progress if our political conditions undergo a change, irrespectively of the manner in which it is brought about. If the means employed are impure, the change will not be in the direction of progress but very likely in the opposite.
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It takes thousands of them to create an archive of human wisdom; only one to set a torch to it. Wouldn’t you have to say, then, that the work of the librarians is more typical of mortal behavior than the work of the arsonist?
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Maybe the universe doesn’t approve of places like New York.
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There is no way of being almost funny or mildly funny or fairly funny or tolerably funny. You are either funny or not funny and there is nothing in between. And usually it is the writer who thinks he is funny and the reader who thinks he isn't.
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The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.
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If you read the first page of one of my novels, I can guarantee that you will read the last one. This isn't just social commentary. This is also about writing good page-turners. I want people to keep reading.
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A lot has been written and said about why he was so great, but I think the best way to appreciate his greatness is just to go back and play some of the old records. Time has a way of being very unkind to old records, but Elvis' keep getting better and better.
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It's helpful to get feedback on your work, and I think you learn a lot from reading other people's work and giving them feedback.
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No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.
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Nothing beats weaving through the rush-hour traffic or whizzing past the eternal gridlock that is the Strand.
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I once asked my oldest daughter [Julia Marie] if she thought about changing her name in school and she said, "No, I'm a Pacino. That's my name." I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she's adjusted so marvelously.
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A physicist looks for causes; that does not necessarily imply that there are causes everywhere. A man may look for gold without assuming that there is gold everywhere; if he finds gold, well and good, if he doesn't he's had bad luck. The same is true when the physicists look for causes.
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I don't have a religion, you know. This is what I am. I am a Rastaman; so this is not religion. This is life.
