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Playing Etta James in the movie 'Cadillac Records' really changed me. It was a darker character, and I realized that if anything is too comfortable, I want to run from it. It's no fun being safe.
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Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
Nobody Knows My Name (1961) -
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.
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Poets are all who love, who feel great truths.
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Poverty is uncomfortable; but 9 times out of 10 the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and be compelled to sink or swim.
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Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
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Producing is nothing more than bringing all the elements together, connecting people.
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Professionalism in law has brought us the O.J. Simpson case in lieu of justice.
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Professionalism in medicine has given us medial miracles for the affluent but hospitals that will charge $35 for aspirin.
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Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.
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Recognizing a problem doesn't always bring a solution, but until we recognize that problem, there can be no solution.
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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.
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Respect a man, he will do it the more.
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Revolutions are notorious for allowing even non-participants - even women! - new scope for telling the truth since they are themselves such massive moments of truth, moments of such massive participation.
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Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive.
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Scientists are the easiest to fool. They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they know is the one where everything has a logical explanation and things are what they appear to be. Children and con
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Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.
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Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
The wit of Brendan Behan (1968)
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