Black Elk Quotes
And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father.
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I love the streets, and the streets love me back. And when things ain't going the way they should go, they let you know... and when they happy, you gotta keep 'em happy.
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For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general.
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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.
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The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.
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I'm not a Man U fan at all, but I can't get enough of Rooney. What a joy to watch!
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Our career had a sort of funny shape.
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I'd like to make something about someone who hasn't existed so that I don't have to tread so carefully and can feel a little bit more creative freedom.
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I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.
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If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
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There's obviously a group who enjoys what Tyler Perry is putting out there. And why fault them? And there's a group that loves the things that Spike does. So they should enjoy that, too. Is it my taste? Maybe not, but I'm not going to fault anybody for doing what they're doing as long as people are showing up.
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I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
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I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.
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The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop song. That's the only music you can do that with.
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On the issue of abortion, I'm ever on the fence, or, at most, an inch or two to either side.
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There were only ever two black kids at my school. I never considered myself to be 'a black kid'. I was who I was. Which isn't to say things haven't happened to me that wouldn't have happened if I wasn't black.
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That's one of the great things about comedy: we can - and should - say the things that other people aren't supposed to say. If we didn't do that, if we didn't push against those limits, we'd just be standing around onstage and yelling.
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Greening the globalised manufacturing and sourcing will be the single biggest help multinationals could make to the tough pollution control in China and other developing countries.
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My overriding belief is that it is always possible for criminals to improve and that by its very finality the death penalty contradicts this.
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People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.
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I do get bottled up in interviews. You're thinking about what you're saying, and suddenly you get all tangled. So people think I'm sullen, or that I don't have much to say. But my friends will tell you: a lot of times I talk too much.
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Pakistan's being an ally and helping the United States, we ought to show Pakistan that we are appreciative for the help that's been extended.
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And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father.
