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The belief in immortality has always seemed cowardly to me. When very young I learned that all things die, and all that we wish of good must be won on this earth or not at all.


Anne Smedley


#always #belief #cowardly #die #earth

When I left Africa in 1966 it seemed to me to be a place that was developing, going in a particular direction, and I don't think that is the case now. And it's a place where people still kid themselves - you know, in a few years this will happen or that will happen. Well, it's not going to happen. It's never going to happen.


Paul Theroux


#case #developing #direction #few #going

I came into a strong organization, and I hope I strengthened it more and expanded its capacity to deal with some of the challenges that might not have seemed as great 10 years ago, such as H.I.V., AIDS and children affected by war.


Carol Bellamy


#ago #aids #came #capacity #challenges

When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. People used to say, 'That's just that ole blues singer.'


B. B. King


#blues #country #i #just #me

When I was a kid, for me, the '60s seemed so far away. But I was actually born in the late '60s.


Lisa Loeb


#away #born #far #far away #i

All of the philosophers I studied were white (with a few Eastern exceptions), and, for that matter, they were all male. Africa, the cradle of civilization, seemed to have no footing in the highest form of human thought.


Walter Mosley


#civilization #cradle #eastern #exceptions #few

It's not that I wanted to be an actor; it's that I didn't want to be a dancer! I was trained in traditional Chinese dance, and after working so hard it seemed unfair to just disappear into a group.


Ziyi Zhang


#after #chinese #dance #dancer #disappear

I hated my work. It never seemed to me to be what I should be doing.


Scott Adams


#hated #i #me #never #seemed

I was interested in opera and it seemed to me that the only possible theatre for contemporary opera would be television. So I started working towards a kind of television kind of opera.


Robert Ashley


#i #interested #kind #me #only

It seemed ironic that Lowell Levine and I, who were both Jewish, were going over to identify the remains of a man who was so anti-Semitic.


Michael Baden


#both #going #i #identify #ironic