Black Elk Quotes
So I took the bright red stick and at the center of the nation's hoop I thrust it in the earth.
Quotes to Explore
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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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One of my strengths is connecting with the players.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.
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I don't like denial. I don't like repression.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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I'm 42 and the age of a guy who has kids, so I guess I'm playing right where I'm supposed to be. I'm comfortable with that, but in the same breath I'd do something edgy. If someone came to me and offered me an edgy and funny story, then I'd do it.
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In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence.
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Toledo is better than exciting, it's happy. Because nothing is more conducive to unhappiness than taking yourself seriously, and taking yourself seriously is difficult when you're baseball team is the Mud Hens.
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The first job of a writer is to be honest.
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A desire of gain is common to mankind, and the general motive to business and industry.
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Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs.
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I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.
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I come from a pretty strange family.
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I have no personal ambitions. I consider it a great privilege to have been given an opportunity to serve, through the Congress party, the people of India. I think that itself is a great reward. I have no personal ambitions in that regard.
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But it's not just a game of finding literary references.
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Women who start out as ugly ducklings don't become beautiful swans. What they mainly become is confident ducks. They take charge of their lives.
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Growing up, I would have to watch the other children and learn from my mistakes. I would have to push myself to overcome the things most people don't have to think about. Brushing my teeth was very difficult because of the noise of the brush.
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A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.
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I believe the crisis started when we started prioritizing redistribution of wealth instead of its creation.
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You have to believe. You have to stick to your guns.
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So I took the bright red stick and at the center of the nation's hoop I thrust it in the earth.
