Black Elk Quotes
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
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To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
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In North Germany, a troublesome ghost is bagged, and the bag emptied in some lone spot or in the garden of a neighbour against whom a grudge is entertained.
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If someone says, 'I love that lipstick,' I will always try to answer, honestly, if I know what color it is. It's a connective tissue.
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.
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As a kid I had all kinds of questions about how I fit it with my neighborhood and friends and other Latinos.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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A man's kiss is his signature.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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Writing is the supreme solace.
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Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.
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I don't feel that electronic music has to stand on the back of urban artists or anyone else to be recognized. It's great music.
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Social Security not only helps Americans enjoy a secure retirement, it has also kept millions of Americans out of poverty.
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In a memoir, your main contract with the reader is to tell the truth, no matter how bizarre.
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I have grown up loving Shakespeare.
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All I can do is make good music and make it for the fans, not for anybody else.
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I think anger is a normal response to something horrible that someone has done, another human being has done, and to rob people of life, and that's actually healthy to have, to feel that. At some point you have to figure out, 'How do I let that go?'
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Social media is not the place to work out your problems with people.
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The bad guy in any good storytelling is always, in some weird way, a mirror for your hero's journey and for the challenges that they are facing and is some weird physical externalization of that fear that the character is holding onto and has to overcome.
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Pope John Paul II was fascinated by the United States. And I think he was initially surprised at the vigor of the Catholic Church in the United States. Maybe some of the press that we had gotten he found wasn't true. No, I think he suspected the church in the United States. Did he challenge us to some things? Sure, he did. But, no, I always - I think there was a good alliance. There was a good gel there.
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A good nation I will make live.
