Ossie Davis Quotes
I wish we had been more organized and determined with respect to carving out the time that we needed to write.

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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
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I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor.
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Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.
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The other actresses, who are called my contemporaries, they started with a megastar. They were superstars overnight and are the same even today.
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Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
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It is absolutely unacceptable to think that in the last year of the president's term, that he should stop doing his job, and he won't.
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A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
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I'm very open-minded.
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A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
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The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.
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If you go to a paintball subreddit, paintball companies can advertise to you.
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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
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School houses do not teach themselves - piles of brick and mortar and machinery do not send out men. It is the trained, living human soul, cultivated and strengthened by long study and thought, that breathes the real breath of life into boys and girls and makes them human, whether they be black or white, Greek, Russian or American.
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In 1916, Universal Studios released the first filmed adaptation of Jules Verne's novel '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.' Georges Melies made a film by that name in 1907, but, unlike his earlier adaptations of Verne, Melies' version bears no resemblance to the book.
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A woman simply is, but a man must become.
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Any idealism is a proper subject for art.
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Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.
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During the last regular session and the most recent special session, measures that I see as little more than Band-Aids were applied to three health programs in the state.
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De toutes les choses sérieuses, le mariage étant la plus bouffonne.
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If you're a human being walking the earth, you're weird, you're strange, you're psychologically challenged.
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My mum was my inspiration. As cliche as that sounds, she was the reason that we started. She chose cycling to lose weight. I was only eight at the time, so I just followed what my mum did.
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If you don't want to have gay weddings in Mormon churches, that's fine. That's absolutely up to the members of the faith or the leadership of the faith. I would never suggest that the Mormon Church has to consecrate gay unions. But homosexuality runs at a fairly constant rate through all populations. There are many gay Mormons.
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I wish we had been more organized and determined with respect to carving out the time that we needed to write.