Bill Dixon Quotes
I think people who sample are cheating. It is like people who do collages. Use all of your own stuff.
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
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It's easy to forget history or give it a cliff notes. The cliff notes of history. But mainly, so much of what happens in 'Eyes on the Prize' happened in Jackson, Mississippi. Jackson, Mississippi isn't really known for any other touchstone to the movement, other than Medgar Evers being killed. There were sit-ins and riots and atrocities.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.
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We're living at a time where if you do a Google search for a 'show, review and network,' you'll get 'The New York Times' and Pete Billingsley from a town you've never heard of on the same results page. It's kind of democratizing the process so that everyone has access to a distribution system to express themselves.
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Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.
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I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.
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A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.
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I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.
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I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'
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Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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I bought an electric scooter in sixth grade. Bankrupted me.
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Nancy Lopez has always been a role model of mine... so to have the opportunity to play for her and spend time with her has been amazing.
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The hour of the liberal interventionists like Hillary Clinton in Libya, like the neocons' hour of power in the GOP, is over.
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There is no bigger aphrodisiac than power.
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We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates - which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing. Today you are looking at the Taliban or ISIS; tomorrow you might be looking at another name.
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The danger in a brood mare band is that your mares become antiquated, and you wake up some day and realize that the average age of your band is 15 or 16 and that in another year they won't be producing offspring. I think the ideal average age for a brood mare band is about 10.
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As someone who grew up in tough circumstances, I know that being on public assistance is not a spot that anyone wants to be in.
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I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods.
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Buddhists talk about nirvana in very much the same terms as monotheists describe God.
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I wrote a book on grace, and grace is a free gift, but to receive the gift you have to have your hands open. And a lot of people don't have their hands open, there's something they're grasping because there's a lot of things to grasp in a prosperous country.
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I think people who sample are cheating. It is like people who do collages. Use all of your own stuff.
