Kenneth Rexroth Quotes
With my own group I like to keep it loose. They have to counter rather than go with me. When they stop I like to be moving.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
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There were a couple of things in the intervention that made me know I needed help. One was a letter from my daughter saying that she was ashamed she had the same last name as I did, which will shock you a little bit.
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It is most regrettable that nuclear energy is being harnessed for making nuclear weapons.
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I really don't have a type. I never had a type. If I could put them all together, it's, like, the most different grouping. So I love when guys are funny. I love guys that are funny and goofy and over the top. And you know, I really like personality.
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Desire creates its own object.
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A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.
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When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
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Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.
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I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
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What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome.
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If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
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That's what I love about songwriting - that you can write something about your own experiences and think it's completely specific to you, and then people can take away a completely different meaning for themselves. I really love that. I think you've been successful at writing a song when it has a larger life than yourself.
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I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
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A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.
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Most of the competition was into bulk popcorn because of the major increases in the Drive-In Theatre Outlets.
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I loved seeing my mom put her own twist on years-old family recipes and also create new dishes. This made me develop a passion for cooking at a young age and would eventually inspire me to prepare meals and host wonderful family dinners.
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The writing part of my life never changes, because that's just when the inspiration comes.
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It's an album that is a little bit different and probably isn't easy to get out. It's not likely that a major label would have picked it up and said that they had a smash hit record.
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I still can't figure out what inspired me to do physics. But since I was nine or ten years old, I wanted to be like [Albert] Einstein. He was my hero. I knew no physicists. I knew no scientists. I had nobody around me. And I went to a convent that didn't even have higher mathematics and physics. I taught myself these subjects in order to get into university.
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The whole chameleon thing about acting. That's why I'm moving towards directing - it's a much more healthy occupation.
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We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.
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I think what's important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.
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With my own group I like to keep it loose. They have to counter rather than go with me. When they stop I like to be moving.
