"Essentially, I'm, most of all, a writer. So, what makes people tick interests me."

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Melvin Van Peebles

#People Quotes #Tick Quotes #Interest Quotes

“Andy Ellis - the 21 year old, who turned 22 a few weeks ago.”
“I felt fine after 24 hours and asked the state commission to prolong my stay in space to three days. And I carried out the entire schedule. Could I have done that if I had been half-dead?”
“There's a price to pay for the speed, and that is danger. And to push that hard on a boat - it does take a lot out of you and is incredibly stressful.”

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“I'll never forget anything about Middle Earth. That's part of my memory now so I won't miss anything.”
“If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.”
“I don't understand why a Mark Rothko painting - as much as I love Mark Rothko - has to cost $73 million. I mean, I think $14 million is a pretty reasonable sum of money for a good Rothko painting. What's disturbing about this present moment is that these prices have been so out of control.”
“Dame Poverty gave me my name, And Pain godfathered me.”

Source : Countee Cullen (2013). “Countee Cullen: Collected Poems: (American Poets Project #32)”, p.51, Library of America
“There's laws that we must live by, and they're not the laws of man.”

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