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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Music is nothing separate from me. It is me. I can't retire from music any more than I can retire from my liver. You'd have to remove the music from me surgically - like you were taking out my appendix.
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We need to work together as social partners to focus on our economy by removing all the obstacles to investment and move South Africa to a higher level of growth.
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Most remarks made by children consist of correct ideas very badly expressed. A good teacher will be very wary of saying 'No, that's wrong.' Rather, he will try to discover the correct idea behind the inadequate expression. This is one of the most important principles in the whole of the art of teaching.
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Coming from an immigrant background, where a lot of parents don't want their kids to be comedians, success was just showing my mom that I could make a living. I was like, if I can get my mom off my back, that was my success.
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A sure indicator of true religion is a concern for the poor of the earth.
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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.
