Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
It is with literature as with law or empire - an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession.
Quotes to Explore
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Public office must not be a means to profit or become rich.
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Doing voice-over work is something that I love to do, and it is a lot of fun at the same time.
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Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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I don't even have my own computer.
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I always wanted to be an actress. And it wasn't ego. I felt so little about myself, considered myself such a sparrow. Not just my size. I thought I was so plain... I did plays not to show off but because if I did that - I didn't realize it at the time - I would be somebody other than this person I didn't really approve of.
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I love women more than anything.
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The soul is part of the body. The mind is part of the body. When folks do physical violence to black people, to black bodies in this country, the soul as we construe it is damaged, too - the mind is damaged, too.
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Communicating with teenage girls is easy unless you're an adult, and then it's like having someone take a pair of pliers and, one-by-one, yank off your fingernails through your ears.
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I stuff animals I find; I do roadkill. They're strangely fun to have. They're like easy-to-control pets.
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So finally I came up with a thing that felt really pure, and I'm Christian, so when I hear about death I have a lot of hope because I believe in Jesus and life after death, and John 3:16.
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Do not just look at your boyfriend as just a boyfriend. Look at him as a friend, too.
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Mountain climbing is my passion, and to empower women through my expeditions is the reason. I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women.
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The first reports of AIDS closely followed the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan, whose 'family values' agenda and alliance with Christian conservatives associated AIDS with deviance and sin.
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Any person without invincible prejudice who had the same experience would come to the same broad conclusion, viz., that things hitherto held impossible do actually occur.
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The political process is rough and tumble by definition, and being grounded in faith in a Higher Power has proven helpful in navigating the difficult terrain.
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Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.
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As it has for America's other indigenous peoples, I believe the United States must fulfill its responsibility to Native Hawaiians.
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I feel that my job is to create an atmosphere where creative people can do their best work.
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I've always believed you go to literature to find the shared human experience, not the categorized human experience.
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It is better to underpromise and overdeliver than vice versa. For this one need not break the law of the land.
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I don't eat any red meat.
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Romania doesn't have a big tradition of gymnastics as a fun activity. We were a little behind in this aspect.
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It is with literature as with law or empire - an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession.
