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The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.


Audre Lorde

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The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house
AUDRE LORDE I'll never be Bob Dylan. He's the master.
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WES CRAVEN It's a facet of the gay rights movement that people don't think about enough. Why suddenly m...
RUTH BADER GINSBURG The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women. It has been made into the confused...
AUDRE LORDE The master's irresponsible power has no such bound.
FANNY KEMBLE I wrote my master's thesis on cartoons!
WARREN SPECTOR My master's degree was in English literature.
SYLVIA BROWNE I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan.
BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously.
ERINN HAYES She told me that she did not like the idea of your being in that house all by yourself, and that she...
BRAM STOKER Master of the universe is every man's potential insight, cosmic potential.
MAHARISHI MAHESH YOGI No man is good enough to be another's master.
WILLIAM MORRIS Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.
ALDOUS HUXLEY The house should derive dignity from the master, not the master from the house.
UNKNOWN What is a master but a master student? And if that's true, then there's a responsibility on ...
NEIL PEART The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us to temporarily beat hi...
AUDRE LORDE Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill
ROLAND SMITH To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.
NATALIE CLIFFORD BARNEY To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton&...
ALBERT EINSTEIN The most common thing over the years is, 'What's it like to work with David Lynch?' That...
MADCHEN AMICK It's not like I have a master plan or anything.
GRETCHEN MOL I think that's what I love about my life. There's no maniacal master plan. It's just unf...
CATE BLANCHETT But first I want to get my master's degree at Columbia's School of International Public Affa...
CHRISTY ROMANO Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It's the fear that we're not good enough.
BRENE BROWN One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be maste...
D. H. LAWRENCE It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON Role-playing isn't storytelling. If the dungeon master is directing it, it's not a game.
GARY GYGAX I'm inspired by my master's movie 'Kerd ma lui,' Bruce Lee's 'Fists of Fury,...
TONY JAA The world and the universe are far more wonderful if there's not a puppet master.
DAVE MATTHEWS I always find Victoria's Secret models a bit weird.
EDIE CAMPBELL It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON As I lay so sick on my bed, from Christmas till March, I was always praying for poor ole master. ...
HARRIET TUBMAN Thinking is a wonderful tool if it's applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thin...
ECKHART TOLLE If it's flipping hamburgers at McDonald's, be the best hamburger flipper in the world. Whate...
SNOOP DOGG I had to be reminded that the guitar is infinite. It never stops teaching you, it never stops being ...
KAKI KING In order to be effective (in creating a master plan) we will need those tools.
DAN SIMPSON It's not a master plan to do every remake and every recreation of icons. It's just what I...
STEVE CARELL With eye upraised his master's looks to scan, The joy, the solace, and the aid of man; The rich ...
GEORGE CRABBE And yet we knew, for a certainty, that when first emissaries of Earth went walking among the planets...
STANISłAW LEM Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols.
JOHN CALVIN I have a master's in psychology, and depression and anxiety are considered to be cyclical.
AUTRE NE VEUT “Every master craftsman equips himself with the best tools for the trade”
JEFF KRANTZ I'm proud to say that I was that guy playing the character of Dr. Burke on 'Grey's Anato...
ISAIAH WASHINGTON It's only when an artist becomes a master that they are fully able to express themselves.
CAROLINA KOSTNER As of the mid-90s, over 50 percent of women have a bachelor's and master's degree, compared ...
PETER DIAMANDIS I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ...
MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX We were an ill-matched pair, my husband and I, from the very outset; he, with very high ideas of a h...
ANNIE BESANT I'd always thought that, in all the great sci-fi constructs, there's always the guy who seem...
DAN FOGELMAN One Christmas, Dennis Dermody, the movie critic of 'Paper,' gave me 'Rock Hudson: A Gath...
JOHN WATERS Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
P. T. BARNUM Here's what I've learned about raising boys... if you keep 'em busy, they're fine. Y...
KENNY ROGERS There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know ...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Before 'Grey's Anatomy,' I was doing musicals, plays, commercials, you name it.
CHANDRA WILSON Students will master the process from the beginning, or the process will master the student.
ANTHONY HARRIS The ego is not master in its own house.
SIGMUND FREUD The thing about rigging is, you can learn it if you become a master rigger but there's no book o...
RICHARD SERRA I have a physical background. It's not like I'm a kung fu master, but my real training was d...
VINCENT CASSEL I'm married to a dear little girl who holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Penns...
PERCY JULIAN 'Legend of the Drunken Master' was my favorite.
LUCAS TILL Is God the Grand Chess Master? Is life a game of strategy that I should wonder what His next move wi...
RJ BLIZZARD She told herself there had been nothing outside, nothing peering in at her from the darkness.
...
CLARA DIANE THOMPSON Light, show yourself pure and strong,
Save a man from evil's throng,
Take a form, small an...
CLARA DIANE THOMPSON Apple Tree Inn, the nightly gathering place of all Winslow residents, and in many ways the core of t...
CLARA DIANE THOMPSON I don't have a grand master plan, but I try to be thoughtful when I can and also silly. It's...
JOSH CHARLES What Dred Scott's master might lawfully do with Dred Scott, in the free state of Illinois, every...
ROGER B. TANEY A writer never forgets the first time he accepted a few coins or a word of praise in exchange for a ...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN But after a while, that too passes, and she and Jack go back to normal, as they have been before, wh...
ANITA SHREVE I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody'...
ERYKAH BADU The learning curve on soaps is through the roof because it's a three-camera setup. There's a...
JOHN C. MCGINLEY I believe that the plight of life and all existence is to master one's self, you know, one day a...
CEELO GREEN White matter may provide liars with the tools necessary to master the complex art of deceit.
ADRIAN RAINE My mother was a master juggler. If you ask her, she'll say she was a wreck. There's plenty o...
SARAH JESSICA PARKER As long as I have the talent and there's a demand for the old Chinese man - whether he's a p...
JAMES HONG Winning the 2007 Master's was a dream fulfilled; culminating on Easter Sunday with my family was...
ZACH JOHNSON My first large-scale community development opportunity was the formation of the Mission Viejo Co. - ...
DONALD BREN It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrif...
AYN RAND I never had any master plan about directing, and I don't really write.
STEVE BUSCEMI Master, master, old news! And such news as you never heard of!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It's important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never ...
MAX VON SYDOW What a brutish master sin is, taking the joy from one's life, stealing money and health, giving ...
JIM ELLIOT Personally, I would say the 'master' of this whole thing is fate... Whoever is on the playin...
CLIFF BURTON It has rained for five days
running
the world is
a round puddle
of sunless water...
AUDRE LORDE There's people who I admire like... Dr. Dre, Puff Daddy, Master P, people who built their stuff ...
WIZ KHALIFA Losing someone close to you is more haunting than a life of cursed solitude.

~The Moon Ma...
CLARA DIANE THOMPSON It?s an excellent raise for the teachers, and I like being able to differentiate between the bachelo...
DOYLENE FUQUA The first thing I did after getting a Master's degree - and the Air Force was very kind; they le...
MICHAEL HAYDEN Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that ...
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL Winners take charge. Whatever you cannot master will become your master.
BENJAMIN SUULOLA I take a lot of ladies' vitamins, because I never buy my own and that's what's in the ho...
AKIVA SCHAFFER Also, this is what a pregnant Busy Philipps does in her free time, I'm taking master fondant cak...
BUSY PHILIPPS When a man tries to communicate with an animal, there's a relationship between them, and you gen...
DAVID SELTZER I once had a dream and this one familiar god, who was probably one of my master teachers, said, '...
NINA HAGEN It's time we learned the truth about stress. It's time we identified the thoughts that actua...
ANDREW J. BERNSTEIN He that is master of himself will soon be master of others.
UNKNOWN Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions ...
RUSSELL BAKER Every show is unique; some shows have the master plan and have everything figured out and that's...
ZOOEY DESCHANEL There's something very particular about the kind of rage you feel when you're alone in a pra...
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the sharpened edge
where day and night shall...
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