Shauna Singh Baldwin famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The kind of violence one should fear is always quiet and comes all wrapped up in words like Love until you live with it daily and you value only that which is valuable to the violator.
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After eating a hundred mice, the cat makes a hadj to Mecca.
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Learning is just remembering slowly, like simmer coming to boil.
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Fiction. . . . It's like goading a mongoose and a cobra into battle and staying with them to see who wins.
-- Shauna Singh Baldwin
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Finally, the scariest thing about abuse of any shape or form, is, in my opinion, not the abuse itself, but that if it continues it can begin to feel commonplace and eventually acceptable.
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The travesty of slavery wasn't physical abuse. It was the moral abuse of looking at a human being as if they are an animal.
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We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.
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What is it in absinthe that makes it a separate cult? The effects of its abuse are totally distinct from those of other stimulants. Even in ruin and in degradation it remains a thing apart: its victims wear a ghastly aureole all their own, and in their peculiar hell yet gloat with a sinister perversion of pride that they are not as other men.
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It is the quietest and meekest people who are often capable of the most sudden and unexpected violences for the reason that when their control does snap, it goes entirely. (Hercule Poirot)
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All the violence in videos and movies, you can't tell me that that wouldn't influence a disturbed person.
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It is emphatically the case that life could not arise spontaneously in a primeval soup from its kind.
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I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
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I think you kind of have to put yourself out there.
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I never consciously set out to be an actor. I just kind of did whatever acting I could do.
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