Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.
Quotes to Explore
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History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
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I did not grow up a cinefile. No one in my family was in the film business or even anything close to it.
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The essential relationship across American history between black people and white people is one of exploitation and one of plunder. This is not, you know, necessarily about, you know, whether you're a good person or not or whether you see black people, you know, on the street, and you're willing to shake their hands and be polite.
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As for lawyers, it's more fun to play one than to be one.
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I grew and learned, journeyed and understood, that someone who is afraid of failing won't get anywhere, and someone who dares to do it runs the risk of failure if they don't learn, correct their mistakes, and get back up.
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Students graduating with high debt encounter difficulties in qualifying for home and automobile loans.
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I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.
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My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.
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Whenever I see a tree that is climbable, it must be climbed. Sometimes when I'm on a run, I'll just run up a tree, jump on a branch and swing off. My favorite tree, in Saratoga, gets me a good 75 feet up.
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If you don't stick up for what's yours, and defend what's yours... what are you?
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I was about 11 or 12 when I began to pick up my mother's books.
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I was brought up to think a lot about food and have respect for it, both as medicine and something to eat and enjoy.
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The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.
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In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.
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Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.
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The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.
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I just never subscribed to the theory that at age 55, you fall off the face of the earth on the Tour. I always felt that was too young of an age for that.
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I refuse to buy a PS3 or Xbox for my home for fear that it might ruin my life. I think I would cease to accomplish anything productive, would quickly dispense with all human contact, and would very well end up with a nasty case of arthritis in my over-used digits from constant gameplay.
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Every reality show plot pales in comparison to our history.
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The consolations of the vulgar are bitter in the royal ear. Let physicians and confectioners and servants in the great houses be judged by what they have done, and even by what they have meant to do; the great people themselves are judged by what they are. I have been told that lions, trapped and shut up in cages, grieve from shame more than from hunger.
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I'm part of the generation that grew up with great rappers like 2Pac and Biggie and people like Amy Winehouse. We've seen a lot of different artists come and go. Even people who are still here, they seem consumed and blinded by fame. It may not have taken them out physically, but they have been taken out.
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Kids are natural scientists.
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Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.
