Black Elk Quotes
They told me I had been sick twelve days, lying like dead all the while, and that Whirlwind Chaser, who was Standing Bear's uncle and a medicine man, had brought me back to life.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm probably a natural uncle. I can take the kids out and have fun with them and look after them, and I can be Mr. Popular. But actually having to do the grind? That stuff just doesn't appeal at all.
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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
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I've found a letter that was written to me from a girl who was getting married. And she wanted to know the secret of a happy marriage. I said - and I wrote back and said something to the effect that I couldn't - I had no magic formula. And I never sat down and thought about it, but everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me.
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A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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I like to discover new things.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
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In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
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The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd - most people don't even know what they want for dinner.
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I've never necessarily chosen to be a bachelor. I've had girlfriends throughout the last 20 or 30 years. It's just that there were times when I met people that fascinated me and times I didn't.
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I make a living playing rock n' roll. I'm not going to complain about anything.
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If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
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If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.
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Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.
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My father did irrigation jobs, and I would sometimes accompany him, and that gave me a taste of what was going on in the innards of India.
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Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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At some point in every person's life, you will need an assisted medical device - whether it's your glasses, your contacts, or as you age and you have a hip replacement or a knee replacement or a pacemaker. The prosthetic generation is all around us.
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Today something interesting happened. I died.
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You come across quite ordinary, nondescript people in daily life, and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage, too.
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He's been unreal coming off the bench. We don't miss a beat.
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The conductor's stand is not a continent of power, but rather an island of solitude.
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They told me I had been sick twelve days, lying like dead all the while, and that Whirlwind Chaser, who was Standing Bear's uncle and a medicine man, had brought me back to life.
