Bill Dixon Quotes
I think people who sample are cheating. It is like people who do collages. Use all of your own stuff.
Bill Dixon
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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.
Zoe Saldana
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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.
Tate Taylor
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I've had self-esteem issues for a really, really long time. Plenty of people think I'm ugly, and plenty of people don't. But there's a moment when I'm modeling where I forget about my self-esteem issues and focus on what the photographer's telling me - and I feel pretty. And in that sense, it's selfish.
Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
Pankaj Mishra
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It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
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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.
J. J. Abrams
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Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.
Gail Sheehy
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I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.
Camille Pissarro
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I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.
Adam Jones
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A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.
Camille Paglia
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I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.
Damon Albarn
Gorillaz
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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.'
Jack Reynor
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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.
Narendra Modi
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As long as I'm not selling out the people that ride or die with me, I'm glad I'm not an MC. I'm a motivational speaker. I'm not that rapper dude.
Young Jeezy
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The illegal wildlife trade threatens not only the survival of entire species, such as elephants and rhinos, but also the livelihoods and, often, the very lives of millions of people across Africa who depend on tourism for a living.
Yaya Toure
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It struck me that it might be interesting for once to do an almost blue-collar warlock. Somebody who was streetwise, working class, and from a different background than the standard run of comic book mystics. Constantine started to grow out of that.
Alan Moore
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In all failures, the beginning is certainly the half of the whole.
George Eliot
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I think people who sample are cheating. It is like people who do collages. Use all of your own stuff.
Bill Dixon