Benjamin Banneker Quotes
Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.
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Obamacare is going to destroy the elderly by denying care, by even perhaps denying treatment to people who are in catastrophic circumstances.
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
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I used to do all my programming on a BBC computer. It was limited to 16 tracks, and you used the keyboard, not a mouse, to input, but I was using it so long, I got quite fast at it.
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I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
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On paper I would be a rather bold individual in our culture.
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In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation.
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At university, I had been obsessed with reading about the lives of Rimbaud and Baudelaire, and I was steeped in the crazy poets, and I came to view my early subjects through that prism.
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I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World; I've been on TV and had three TV series.
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I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.
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I'm confident and really optimistic.
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I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.
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Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
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In some cases, it's not just about cleaning up the factories. It's about cleaning up the nearby rivers and lakes that have been tainted with heavy metals.
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I think we all attract troublemakers; I don't think it's particularly about anyone. I had it actually as an album title, and I thought it would be really cool to write a song about a girl that's a bit of troublemaker.
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Move your lymph system. Lymph is like a sewage system that carries all of the toxins out of your body.
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I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing... getting back to reality.
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I certainly support civil unions.
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I don't like being in debt, and I wouldn't borrow money for anything.
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'Lisa' was a film that I am really proud of and is probably hopefully going to be remade.
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The Nicomachean Ethics is only intended as a guide for politicians, and they are only concerned to know what is good, not what goodness means...and in any case one can know what things are good without knowing the analysis of 'good'
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Man's inhumanity to man is as old as humanity itself. Some people just do evil things. Most do not. A billion people have seen 'Batman' movies over the past 20 years, and they have been entertained and inspired. One man saw it as a sick entry point for mass murder. The one is tragic. The billion are not. I choose to write for the billion.
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Yoga is both the movement toward and the arrival at a point.
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I feel that people who haven't read my books and haven't heard me lecture - who don't in fact know what my work is about - have been very hard on me. There is an expression in Alcoholics Anonymous called "contempt prior to investigation." I feel many people practice contempt prior to investigation.
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Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.
