Edwin Louis Cole Quotes
Reasonable men adapt to the world around them; unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men.
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My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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I'm always happy when I hear about people selling records or selling books or selling movies. It makes me proud of them.
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Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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It was a matter of survival for the local people, but it was the most violent scene I have ever witnessed. The people in my group, feeling helpless, were all spellbound and aghast at the same time. I became a vegetarian shortly after that.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
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We interpret our agreement with the IMF - our participation in the IMF's system of cooperation - as a borrowing agreement. The IMF sees it as an economic policy agreement. This is not in our interest.
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.
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To be half-naked for a Greek mythology movie, it's a piece of art. You know, there's nothing vulgar in there.
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The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
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Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.
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When you're afraid, you look to amass power to defend yourself, not realizing that can also be corrupting.
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Back in eighth grade, I'd seen nothing but small-town Georgia when I left the U.S. for the first time and went to Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China.
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This is the war on terrorism; it's worth fighting for.
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Here in L.A., you kind of get stuck in your own little dilemmas and your own little life, and hearing a story like Pocahontas' reminds you there's a bigger world out there, and there are so many more important things in life.
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Reasonable men adapt to the world around them; unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men.
