Warren Farrell Quotes
Myth. Rape is a manifestation of male political and economic power. Fact. Any given black man is three times as likely to be reported a rapist as a white man. Do blacks suddenly have more political and economic power? Maybe rape does not derive from power, but rather from powerlessness.
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I still wanted to see the family come back to life. And when that didn't transpire from the music, it kinda made me feel like I was bein' taken advantage of. I thought, when people heard '8 Diagrams,' they'd be like, 'Oh, Wu-Tang is a wrap now - they've lost it.' And I know that we didn't lose it.
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Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.
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Industry is extremely slow in readjusting itself to the manufacture of modern consumer goods.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
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I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.
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I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.
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In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn't do just one thing.
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I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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What role should religion play in the American public school classroom? My own knee-jerk response would be, 'none whatsoever,' but the Constitution isn't quite so direct on the subject.
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I love being a part of Aqua Teen.
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I've been noticing gravity since I was very young.
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I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment.
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I'm an actress, and that's my work and my passion.
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I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park.
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Sometimes when you play a golf course for the first time, you just got to be committed to your targets.
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Companies that have strong graphic identities have built them through years of use.
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My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.
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A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
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New Orleans invented the brown paper bag party - usually at a gathering in a home - where anyone darker than the bag attached to the door was denied entrance. The brown bag criterion survives as a metaphor for how the black cultural elite quite literally establishes caste along color lines within black life.
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It's like there's this boldness that I have where I'm driven by something that I can't name.
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American colleges are now increasingly reflexive in maintaining politically correct dialogue over controversy, and some say universities have lost sight of education's ultimate purpose.
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Myth. Rape is a manifestation of male political and economic power. Fact. Any given black man is three times as likely to be reported a rapist as a white man. Do blacks suddenly have more political and economic power? Maybe rape does not derive from power, but rather from powerlessness.
