Black Elk Quotes
To use the power of the bison, I had to perform that part of my vision for the people to see.
Quotes to Explore
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If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.
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J. J. Abrams is a director that I've admired for a long time, from the very first scripts he wrote - including 'Regarding Henry,' which I was in.
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I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
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Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.
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I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
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Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.
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That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I open the doors for everybody all the time.
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A lot of people I make music with are really talented and it doesn't stop at one instrument.
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Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.
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Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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Sometimes I talk to religious people about my column or what I do, and I ask them to, you know, read 20 or 30 of them and then come tell me that the message at the heart of every column isn't, 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.' In every possible sense.
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Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our life.
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When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.
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I would love to work with Reese Witherspoon.
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The continental troops have as much courage and real discipline as those that are opposed to them. They are more inured to privation, more patient than Europeans, who, on these two points, cannot be compared to them.
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You can't get anywhere without the people who have come into your life.
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They say there are only two kinds of people on St. Patrick's Day: the Irish, and the people that drive them home.
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'What doesn't kill you makes you stronger' not only applies to the deeply personal subject matter of 'To the Bone' but to simply getting a film about people with eating disorders made. Without the brilliant Julie Lynn, Bonnie Curtis, and Karina Miller producing, there's no way this project would be coming to fruition.
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To use the power of the bison, I had to perform that part of my vision for the people to see.
