Kwame Nkrumah Quotes
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I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.
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I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941.
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And then the conditions of safety - or lack of safety - for teachers in public schools, and the disparity between public schools and private schools is shameful.
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Don't try to guess what it is people want and give it to them. Don't ask for a show of hands. Try your best to write what you like, what you think your friends would like and what you think your father would like and then cross your fingers... The most valuable thing you have is your own voice.
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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
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There aren't a lot of roles written for women who are strong willed.
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Honestly, I find the analysis of dreams is one of the dullest things. I say this as a therapist kid. I find them deeply uninteresting, as a window to the soul.
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I spent a lot of time over in England wrestling at Butlins holiday camps for Brian Dixon and All Star Wrestling.
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We are a pluralist civilisation because we allow mosques to be built in our countries, and we are not going to stop simply because Christian missionaries are thrown into prison in Kabul. If we did so, we, too, would become Taliban.
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While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.
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The idea of having one ensemble do everything is what was on 'Sea Lion' and that's what I tried to make happen for 'Metals,' which is having five people in the room and all of us contributing equally to every arrangement and every song.
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Until I came out, my acting was all about disguise, and thereafter it became about telling the truth.
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I don't do anything by myself. I have a whole crew to get me ready every day.
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No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
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Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
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My music is bejewelled, it's colourful, it's romantic, it shines.
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I never expected to make a lot of money from music.
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Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
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My parents are both teachers, so we had the summers off.
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There are many benefits to a sports entity breaking news directly to their recipients: the entity has full control over the message and how it is shared versus previously relying on a media outlets to translate or distribute as they choose. Also, there's no quicker place for valuable information to spread than Twitter.
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I'm a pretty boring person. I have a dog that I love, and friends that I love, and a family that I love. I'm just trying to spend as much time with them as I can.
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I visited a scientist who had a helmet with magnetic fields controlled by computer sequences that could profoundly affect your mood and your perceptions.
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We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.
