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.
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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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It's a beautiful religion and I wish I understood it more. No, I don't want to understand it all. It's beautiful because it's always a mystery. Sometimes I say I don't believe in God and Jesus and Mary. I'm a bad Catholic because I miss mass once in a while and I grumble when, at confession, I get a heavy penance for something I couldn't help doing. But good or bad, I am a Catholic and I'll never be anything else. Of course, I didn't ask to be born Catholic, no more than I asked to be born American. But I'm glad it turned out that I'm both these things.
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Judging others’ intentions is the right of God alone. We don’t have this right, and it is poor manners with God.
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I answered that one learns to live, not by hearing of other lives, but by living; for words are infinitely less important than acts.
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I think, to me, I was always taught you never approach any character as a villain. Every human being on earth really believes that they're doing the best thing. We all have our rationalizations.
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I know me. I only have brothers, and I know that I would do anything for them, and I would back them up to the ends 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.
