Clive Barker Quotes

I don't feel there's any reason to apologise for having a wicked imagination. I think it's important as a maker of fantasy and of horror.

Clive Barker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: October 5, 1952

Topics

ImaginationThinkFeelImportant

And so border security is not simply preventing people from getting in, but very often preventing somebody from leaving for the wrong reasons.

Jeh Johnson

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Over the years, I've come to realize that sometimes a ghost isn't always a ghost. Sometimes, telling a ghost story is a way to talk about something else present in the air, taking up space beside you. It can also be a manifestation of intuition, or something you've known in your bones but haven't yet been able to accept.

Jenna Wortham

SpaceStoryPresentYouSometimes

To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.

Andre Malraux

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If you talk about an issue, what comes back is a description of what you're wearing. Reporters only want to know how tall you are and if your teeth are capped.

Robert Redford

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The language skill in the U.S. for the most part has been awful. Many Americans don't learn any foreign language.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

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Cognitive psychology has shown that the mind best understands facts when they are woven into a conceptual fabric, such as a narrative, mental map, or intuitive theory. Disconnected facts in the mind are like unlinked pages on the Web: They might as well not exist.

Steven Pinker

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I spent 12 years of my life writing stories without black people. That's insane to me. It's insane that I could have believed in magical portals and dragons and all that stuff, but to believe a black person could be experiencing those things was unimaginable.

Tomi Adeyemi

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Only in Chicago do they care more about who the mayor is than who's president.

Mike Quigley

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True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant.

Miguel de Unamuno

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I think racial profiling is wrong. It cannot be defended. It's just flat wrong. And if a matter came before me, and it could be established that the arrest was made strictly on racial profiling, when I was on the bench, it would be gone.

Judge Mills Lane

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I had never had a deep sense of belonging anywhere. I always felt I was an outsider.

Chirlane McCray

DeepBelongingNeverAlwaysOutsider

I like the songs that are fun, that aren't gonna change the world - I've some of those - but even something like, 'You Should Be Here,' that was my chance to say, 'Look, this is me, too. I'm just a normal person.'

Cole Swindell

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