August Strindberg Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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What I know about this world is that white people will take care of themselves. And what I have learned is that if you are where they are on an equal basis, they cannot take care of themselves without taking care of you.
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I like a little bit of designer, with a bit of vintage and high street mixed in. I love it when you find those one-off key pieces, which end up becoming investment pieces.
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Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.
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There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
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When I'm dancing, I don't know where the confidence comes from, but I just pretend I'm someone else, I think, and then I go out and dance.
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The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
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Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
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My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.
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I don't really do sad, depressing songs.
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America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.
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A lot of people don't like me.
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Conflict drives fiction; no one wants to read a four-hundred-page novel in which everything rolls along smoothly.
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My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.
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Every glass thermometer has subtle variations in the size and shape of the bulb at the bottom and the capillary tube inside, as well as variations in the width of gradations on the side. The compounded effect of these uncertainties is that each thermometer reads temperature slightly differently.
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I'm the kind of person who'll have a few drinks and fall asleep at 11.
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Multicultural markets are nuanced but not alien.
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Red Carpet has a nice package abstraction layer that allows us to support RPMs and DEBs transparently.
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Usually I design the lighting and when I have the physical set there, I'm not good at going out loosely and saying, 'Do you what you want, give it to the editor, and he'll figure it out.' I physically then walk on with the actors and I say, 'Let's walk until you guys feel the space works for you, and tell me when all that happens.'
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To escape from evil we must be made as far as possible like God; and the resemblance consists in becoming just and holy and wise.
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The core of the culture is racism and how black men are viewed. They've always been demonized and seen as threats in our culture. Another holdover from slavery. We've got to deal with that core root of racism and demonization of the upbringing of black men. Black women are not exempt by any means.
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Understanding the importance of evolving is very important. Reinventing is very important. To break what you have already done is very important. That growth should never stop.
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There's some aura about a Nobel Prize, there's a prestige, that gives me a responsibility that I didn't have before, that goes beyond my own work, as a spokesman for science.
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I'm not especially interested in actors or their life, double, triple identities and all that.
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The world, life and human beings are only an illusion, a phantom, a dream image.
