Clarke Peters Quotes
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Greetings and death to our enemies.
Dan Aykroyd
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
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I've been living. I've been doing the writing thing. I've been being the family man. I've been traveling the world. I been to, like, 18 cities last year. I've been getting my thoughts together, trying to figure out what's going on with hip-hop itself.
Raekwon
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The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
H. L. Mencken
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If you can live in Vegas, or visit Vegas, and leave in one piece, still loving it and somehow laughing about it, you should spend at least part of your last night in town doing something that will serve you well no matter where you go next: thank your lucky stars.
J. R. Moehringer
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In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.
Aaron Lazar
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The fact that I have always been deeply invested in politics, and African politics in particular, inevitably played a role in my first novel and, of course, in my decision to write about a handful of particular conflicts in Africa as a journalist.
Dinaw Mengestu
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It's a grim business, this being funny. Every time you come up with a strong, satiric idea, the world tops it.
Del Close
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You think of 'Outlaw Josey Wales,' you immediately think of the old Indian guy, Sondra Locke, the old lady with the glasses, beautiful old actress.
Ben Mendelsohn
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Our military should be trained and structured around missions, not the elements of air, water, and land.
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
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What is American music? The most satisfying answer I've come across is that it was a kind of natural comfort with the vernacular which is diverse and regional; it's not one particular set of sounds.
Carlisle Floyd
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I like rock music. I like jazz better, though.
Clarke Peters
