Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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I do have the odd dream where I'm on stage and I've completely forgotten what I'm meant to be performing - so they are more nightmares than dreams.
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If the 'Post' can play the role of a connector between the West and the East, I have confidence in the paper's future success.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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I wouldn't mind going somewhere and taking a president position and signing acts and taking the attention off of me and taking what I've learned in my career and applying that to another person's.
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It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming.
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Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
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To have so many years in the rap industry and so many number one songs, and sold so many millions of records, introduced the world to people like Cool & Dre, DJ Khaled, Pitbull, Rick Ross, Trick Daddy, Remy Ma, Big Pun, Rico Love... I could go on and on. Having been able to influence the rap game for so long is very important to me.
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Fighting is easy to understand. You just hit the guy as hard as you can.
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One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
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When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.
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I would say that I quite consciously rely on my obsessions in all my work, that I deliberately set up an obsessional frame of mind. In a paradoxical way, this leaves one free of the subject of the obsession.
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Emmitt Smith is a great running back. One of the things I like about him along with Edgerrin James is that neither one of them 'show out' when they run a touchdown.
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The bigger a company gets, the more people are involved in decisions, the slower decisions get made. Look, the whole theory of startups is that three motivated people can go and do something that every company can't.
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I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.
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I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning.
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Looking back, we had the hard time, but the privilege, of actually coming up playing biker bars and little bitty college bars.
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I think it's amazing that I'm 45 and it is the most creatively successful year of my life.
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Sometimes I need to reject the music proposed for my songs because the musicians misunderstand that the Fanny Crosby who once wrote for the people in the saloons has merely changed the lyrics. Oh my no. The church must never sing it's songs to the melodies of the world.
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A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared.
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People in extreme conditions are suddenly naked, realer than normal, perhaps even more alive.
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Clear out 800,000 people and preserve it as a museum piece.
