Edward Lawrie Tatum Quotes
Children who have been silenced often enough learn not to talk about race publicly. Their questions don’t go away, they just go unasked.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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After becoming deaf, I realized that I'd better get an education if I was ever to do anything with my life.
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When we write about Auschwitz, we must know that Auschwitz, in a certain sense at least, suspended literature. One can only write a black novel about Auschwitz or - you should excuse the expression - a cheap serial, which begins in Auschwitz and is still not over.
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I got to do a lot of good things at a young age. I really kind of knocked out my bucket list when I was really young.
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Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had.
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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
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Age and numbers are a concept made up by man.
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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
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Here we have a situation where a defendant in a case agrees to an interview with Dan Rather. It happened to be not confidential. But it was an interview with Dan Rather.
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Sharing the stage while singing my songs was a bit of a daunting prospect.
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The reflected world is the conquest of calm
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There were definitely lyrics and they were very meaningful. I think.
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And yet, I wake up every day to a sensation of pervading disgust and annoyance. I probably ought to carry around some kind of thermometer or other instrument, to keep checking that I am not falling prey to premature curmudgeonhood.
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When the crying child is immediately isolated, and it is explained to him at the same time that whoever annoys others must not be with them, if this isolation is the absolute result and cannot be avoided, in the child's mind a basis is laid for the experience that one must be alone when one makes oneself unpleasant or disagreeable.
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What do I have to cheat for? I've always been playing against people older than me anyways. So what do I have to cheat for?
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I had been struggling with how to create a child-like protagonist's voice without making it sound as though I was 'dumbing down' to the character. They are able to see events, people and places with an intensity and open mindedness that adults lack.
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I am interested in all things that celebrate and enhance the female form.
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And you wouldn't believe what a small world it is because everyone seems to know that I was a Playmate. You wouldn't be scared of me, would you?
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Question everyone in authority, and see that you get sensible answers to your questions ... questioning does not mean the end of loving, and loving does not mean the abnegation of intelligence. Vow as much love to your country as you like ... but, I implore you, do not forget to question.
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In the course of time I have learned to tramp about coral reefs, twenty to thirty feet under water, so unconcernedly that I can pay attention to particular definite things. But after all my silly fears have been allayed, even now, with eyes overflowing with surfeit of color, I am still almost inarticulate. We need a whole new vocabulary, new adjectives, adequately to describe the designs and colors of under sea.
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Socrates used to call the opinions of the many by the name of Lamiae, bugbears to frighten children.
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Motor racing is going to miss a phenomenal race driver and I'm going to miss a good friend. I think I will learn a lot with Sam. He is an experienced driver even though he is young. He's been fast at a lot of tracks where we haven't done well so I hope to learn from him.
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Children who have been silenced often enough learn not to talk about race publicly. Their questions don’t go away, they just go unasked.
