Clarence Thomas Quotes
I claim my right to think for myself, to refuse to have my ideas assigned to me as though I was an intellectual slave because I'm black.
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This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.
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I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.
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The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.
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I really think it is possible to make a very nice living by writing and not worrying about anything else.
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We are so blessed to be here in America. We have freedom and opportunity unlike anywhere else in the world.
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I'm happy that all my films are different from one another.
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The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.
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Our responsibility for BLM lands is multiple-use, meaning a variety of needs and uses.
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I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.
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When we were growing up, women in their late 40s generally didn't dye their hair.
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Anyone can make an article longer; the skill is keeping it tight and lean.
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I came to Berlin not to visit its museums and galleries, its operas, its theaters... but for the sake of seeing and speaking with the world's greatest living man - Alexander von Humboldt.
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My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value.
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Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.
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I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.
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Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.
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Reality TV is easier to digest if it comes in small amounts.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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Black folks never bungie jump. That's too much like lynching for us. I'm gonna let you tie a rope around me and push me off a bridge? You must be out your damn mind.
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Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.
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I have entered the sports equipment business with 'Bhajji Sports.' I am applying for ICC clearance so that cricket bats with 'Bhajji Sports' logos could be used for international matches. In domestic circuit, the Punjab team is already wearing Bhajji Sports dresses for the Ranji Trophy matches.
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My mother taught me what it is to have a sense of humour; my dad, who was a headmaster, everything you need to know about hard work. My dad is the most decent man you could come across.
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We complain and complain, but we have lived and seen the blossom -apple, pear, cherry, plum, almond blossom - in the sun; and the best among us cannot pretend they deserve - or could contrive - anything better.
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I claim my right to think for myself, to refuse to have my ideas assigned to me as though I was an intellectual slave because I'm black.
