Augustus Sol Invictus Quotes
I totally understand I'm an eccentric person; I'm not going to claim to be a normal person.
Quotes to Explore
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It's insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.
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Growing up, I was taught that a woman should lower her gaze so that men could never know her thoughts. The so-called modesty of Arab women is, in fact, a war tactic.
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You can be anything. You could be the President of the United States or the inventor of the next Internet or a ninja cardio-thoracic surgeon poet, which would be awesome because you would be the first one.
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Most Americans have no clue that before there were highways, there were only waterways to get through the wilderness. If you weren't on a lake or a river, you were in a jungle.
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I'm part Cuban, so anything with a good beat like Rumberos de Cuba gets me going.
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I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.
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I consider my education to be the first 10 years of my career.
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I had formed a black movement, so I would speak for the Trotskyist movement and then walk about a hundred yards to where the black movement was speaking.
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I guess that I'm primarily thought of as a rocker, largely because of 'Frankenstein' being such a heavy song - you know, it was really hard rock, almost a precursor of heavy metal and just the image of the synthesizer. I happened to be the first guy to get the idea of putting a strap on the keyboard.
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Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
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I definitely want my fans to know that I'm here to stay, and I'm going to continue to give them hot music.
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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
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I know that the last thing a book wants is to just sit around unread, serving as an element of interior decorating. So when I have people over, all they have to do is glance at my books, and I implore them to take a few home with them. If I am really ambitious, I pack books into boxes and donate them to prisons.
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My dad was a Marine. He was one of the Montford Point Marines. Those are the equivalent of the Tuskegee Airmen for Marines. He's a tough, tough guy. When I was 15 we had a fight, and I didn't speak to him for 10 years.
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I grew up in an acting family. I was heavily discouraged from doing it myself when I was young, which is the only responsible route to take with any child, because it's not necessarily the easiest of lives.
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Different people have different styles, but there is an opportunity as a director to be a writer in every moment, with every visual cue and every piece of production design. Everything is a decision, and everything can be obsessed over.
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The Bush tax cuts, they ought to be made permanent in my mind so there is certainty out there.
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I love to show off my ability in a nice way.
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I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.
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Let's face it: the present self is present. It's in control. It's in power right now. It has these strong, heroic arms that can lift doughnuts into your mouth. And the future self is not even around. It's off in the future. It's weak. It doesn't even have a lawyer present.
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The American child is a highly intelligent human being - characteristically sensitive, humorous, open-minded, eager to learn, and has a strong sense of excitement, energy, and healthy curiosity about the world in which he lives. Lucky indeed is the grown-up who manages to carry these same characteristics into adult life. It usually makes for a happy and successful individual.
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When you have done the rashest thing in the world it is very pleasant to be told that no man of spirit could have acted otherwise.
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Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.
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I totally understand I'm an eccentric person; I'm not going to claim to be a normal person.
