"I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer."

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Source : Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.40, Vintage

Ralph Ellison

#Asking Quotes #Answers Quotes

“The weakness in a model in which one assumes that the electorate gets what it needs from Bill Clinton is that our system doesn't institutionalize the oppositional voice, and one needs to be able to hear the exchange of the debate in order to create an informed electorate.”

Source : "David Gergen and Mark Shields on Bill Clinton's 100 Days". "PBS Newshour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. April 29, 1993.
“Humans are, as Sartre put it, 'condemned to be free'. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to abandon our responsibility as human beings to make such judgments.”
“When [actors] are talking, they are servants of the dramatist. It is what they can show the audience when they are not talking that reveals the fine actor.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“Love is heaven and fear is hell. Where you place your attention is where you live.”
“I love doing TV as much as I love doing movies.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I could care less about sitting around and practicing the guitar for hours a day and trying to be the best guitar player on the planet.”
“My interest is to point out to you that you can walk, and please throw away all those crutches. If you are really handicapped, I wouldnâ€™t advise you to do any such thing. But you are made to feel by other people that you are handicapped so that they could sell you those crutches. Throw them away and you can walk. Thatâ€™s all that I can say. â€˜If I fall....â€™ - that is your fear. Put the crutches away, and you are not going to fall.”
“At the moment, we don't deserve international cricket in our country. The security situation is poor here.”

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