Darryl Pinckney Quotes

'Go Tell It on the Mountain,' its pages heavy with sinners brought low and prayers groaning on the wind, scared me when I read it as a teenager.

Darryl Pinckney

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• Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.

  

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• I have loved Elliott Carter's music for many years.

  

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• When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'

  

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• Chemical weapons simply have no place in the 21st century. Progress in this vital area will help generate momentum to meet our goal of eliminating all weapons of mass destruction.

  

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• I think music should be scary. Music is an exorcism.

  

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• If I learned anything from the Army, it was about being able to get things done, no matter how tough the assignment, and it served me later in life.

  

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• There's no regrets for me.

  

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• Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.

  

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• I'm such a perfectionist.

  

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• For me, the love really flowed when I found out the baby was a boy. That's when I could finally bond, once I knew 'it' was a him.

  

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• I was getting a little bored with my hair. It's kind of a symbolic thing, just getting rid of the past, moving forward. It's amazing what a reaction you get when you cut your hair.

  

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• I am about safety for the people and the planet.

  

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• I can be very self-destructive, but quietly.

  

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• In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.

  

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• People like Art Blakey and Buddy Rich, you look at them playing music, and it's just like looking at a heavy metal drummer. I mean, they're playing with the same amount of ferocity. It's not to say all jazz is like that.

  

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• We had an awfully good ball club that was capable of beating anybody. They were that good.

  

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• The Israeli-Palestinian problem becomes very acute with Gaza dominated by Hamas. With the possibility of the conflict escalating, not only in terms of Gaza but also the Hezbollah and Lebanon, with the continuing crisis in Iraq, which is very dynamic and unpredictable and which could get out of hand, and maybe even escalate and enlarge.

  

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• I eat like no other; it drives everyone crazy. I eat donuts three times a day, and I probably go through four Mountain Dews a day. I'm on, like, a sugar high at all times, pretty much.

  

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• 'Go Tell It on the Mountain,' its pages heavy with sinners brought low and prayers groaning on the wind, scared me when I read it as a teenager.

  

  Darryl Pinckney
  • Wind
  • Mountain
  • Teenager