Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Friends, to me for years St. Louis represented a city of fear… humiliation… misery and terror… A city where in the eyes of the white man a Negro should know his place and had better stay in it.
Josephine Baker
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Because we were all from Liverpool, we favored people who were street people.
George Harrison
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I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don’t have to stay that way.
Hedy Lamarr
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I love competing.
Maria Sharapova
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I wasn’t really naked. I simply didn’t have any clothes on.
Josephine Baker
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I had to get rich so I could sing like I was poor again.
Dolly Parton
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Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.
John Lennon
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Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
Oscar Wilde
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To the people I forgot, you weren’t on my mind for some reason and you probably don’t deserve any thanks anyway.
Eminem
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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West. The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
Noam Chomsky
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