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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Most actors, if you ask them if they play guitar, they'll say they played guitar for 20 years, but what they really mean is they've owned a guitar for 20 years.
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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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I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.
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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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We must set up large refugee camps outside the E.U. with armed security and financial support provided by the Union.
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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 is a secret agreement between past generations and the present one. Our coming was expected on earth. Like every generation that preceded us, we have been endowed with a weak Messianic power, a power to which the past has a claim. That claim cannot be settled cheaply.
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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 am the center of attention in my job every single day; the thought of a wedding to me is exhausting. Why would I put myself through that?
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If children can't handle competition when it's necessary, or take some criticism, or never strive to be better because their parents inadvertently programmed them to believe they are already the best even when they're not, then they are in for some serious shocks and bumps down the road.
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Late April and you are three; today
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Nike told me, 'We can't give you royalties because you're not a professional athlete.' I told them 'I'll go to the Garden and play one-on-no-one.' I'm a performance athlete!
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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.
