#rap

I never refused an autograph, never refused to buy someone a drink. Now I'm learning to say I've got other things on, instead of doing it and wondering why. ↗

— Paul Gascoigne

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Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

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People who own property feel a sense of ownership in their future and their society. They study, save, work, strive and vote. And people trapped in a culture of tenancy do not. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

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So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

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Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#country #france #habit #into #marry

The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there's a single numeric average. But if it's a design or something that matters, the decision is made by committee, and that's crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#average #before #choosing #committee #crap

I never leave a sentence or a paragraph until I'm satisfied with it. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#leave #never #paragraph #satisfied #sentence

A lot of what I've been learning in the last two years is due to therapy - about my sexuality, why things go wrong, why relationships haven't worked. It isn't anything to do with anybody else; it's to do with me. ↗

— Boy George

#anybody #anything #been #due #else

I try not to get trapped in any one musical or visual style at all. ↗

— Adam Lambert

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People see me as someone who doesn't take any crap from anyone - which I don't - but it's my shtick, and I obviously don't act like that all the time. ↗

— Miranda Lambert

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