Benjamin Percy Quotes
I don't flinch from darkness, but I've always been bothered by what I call gore-nography.Benjamin Percy
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'Trapped In The Closet' lives in a place on the earth on its own. It pays its own rent, it's its own landlord, it owns the building, it's everything. And it's so separate from what R. Kelly does; that's the great thing about it.
R. Kelly -
As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!
Samuel Pepys -
The Talented Tenth of the Negro race must be made leaders of thought and missionaries of culture among their people.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
E. O. Wilson -
What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.
Olin Miller -
I have no animus toward digital, though I still pretty much take everything on a silver-based negative, either a wet plate or just regular silver 8x10. But I've started messing a little bit with scanning the negative and then reworking it just slightly.
Sally Mann
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I've committed to surfing the rest of my life.
Lance Armstrong -
A person who suffers from severe locomotor anxiety finds himself in an almost permanent state of mental tension. He wakes in the morning with the anxious expectation of having to go out somewhere in the course of the day.
Karl Abraham -
When I was eight, a hippie guy taught me how to meditate and gave me this scarf I was supposed to wear when I meditated. I still have it; it's probably one of the items that mean most to me.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
My poems are political in the deeper sense of the word. Political means to live in your time, to be a man of your time.
Yehuda Amichai -
If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart.
Edmund Wilson -
Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
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Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.
Manly Hall -
I don't plan my roles or my films.
Manju Warrier -
Refugees come to us seeking asylum, seeking freedom, justice and dignity - seeking a chance just to breathe. And people in our country are saying close the doors and don't let them in?
Mandy Patinkin -
I think the fact that I created something and had an enormous influence is indisputable.
La Monte Young -
I never think of myself as any kind of sex symbol, but I get letters from all over, all sorts. It's really cool. I get a lot from inmates, which is kind of scary. But the best was the guy who wanted to send me a plane ticket to fly me to his prom.
Laura Prepon -
Gospel is just the truth of the word of God. Anybody can sing it, anybody; anybody can perform it.
Yolanda Adams
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In the beginning of my YouTube channel, I feel like I was doing what everyone else was doing, and I kind of felt very pressured to fit in with everyone.
Bethany Mota -
I would provide more opportunities for the kids of urban communities to go to school and learn trades - to get more jobs to take care of their families.
Warren G -
I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.
George McGovern -
If our free society is to endure, and I know it will, those who govern must recognize that the Framers of the Constitution limited their power in order to preserve human dignity and the air of freedom which is our proudest heritage.
William J. Brennan, Jr. -
I don't flinch from darkness, but I've always been bothered by what I call gore-nography.
Benjamin Percy