Caroline Paul Quotes
If there's a fire, I want to be there. Maybe because in being so close to death, I think I understand what it means to be truly alive.
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I'm not that ambitious chick. I'm not chasing a cover of a magazine or an award. I've just never been that girl. I've always been very content with whatever God blessed me with and he's already blessed me with a lot.
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Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.
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I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.
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You can still make music that people love, but there won't be more innovation. I started listening to electronic music a long time ago. But mostly I listen to rap. I think rap is the most interesting.
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Too many African countries have already hit rock-bottom - ungoverned, poverty-stricken, and lagging further and further behind the rest of the world each day; there is nowhere further to go down.
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In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.
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Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.
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The concept of monogamy is an inheritance of a medieval time, when family would carry the tradition of the name and certain privileges. It's a way of organizing society, perhaps.
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You have to know what club you are playing for, or you just play for yourself. Every time I put on a Liverpool shirt, I know it is more than just a football game.
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It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.
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I can only hope that my future movies will do well.
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I had seen the ballet of 'Swan Lake' as a child but it was as an adult, when I saw a production featuring Erik Bruhn, that I first noticed how significant a part the ever-present threat of violence played. This juxtaposition of great beauty and grace with a backdrop of pure evil stayed with me for years.
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The hard-core Left loves ridiculing Christians who believe scripture that says, 'God created the heaven and the earth.' They say that it's anti-science to believe that an almighty God would do such a thing.
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I think riots happen when communities are under pressure for long periods of time. That's not a mistake.
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I'm going through a stage where the dumbest things make me bawl. I feel like I need to see a shrink.
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Islam tells us every girl and boy should be educated. I don't know why the Taliban have forgotten it.
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Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.
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I'm glad that cinema is catching up to what television has known for a while: That three-dimensional, complex women get an audience engaged as much as the men.
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As Ralph's character begins to discover the political thriller aspect of the film, he falls deeper in love with his wife, so the two run together. That's the beauty of this film. It has fast pace and excitement, but it also has heart and soul.
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I'm just worn down and weary of bands whose lyrics are cryptic and self-referential.
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As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer.
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Nobody in this world thinks they're having enough sex. Watch any night on television, or any comedian in a nightclub, and every other joke is about people who aren't getting enough.
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Obviously death is a theme I'm fascinated by.
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If there's a fire, I want to be there. Maybe because in being so close to death, I think I understand what it means to be truly alive.
