Duane Michals Quotes
In the West, people tend to look at life as spectators, but in the East, people are the thing.
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You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.
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We all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan. The world community has to come to grips with this harsh reality.
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It's remarkable what a new kidney does to your life. I have no complaints... I'm pretty amazed. I have been working on my stamina.
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A mortgage transaction is very complex, very complicated, and very localized - the rules are not just by state but by county, sometimes even by municipality.
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I wrote my first book when I was 15 years old. And my second book '1,2,3 Publish Me!' shows everyone how writing a book is done in just the three secret editing levels I discovered!
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good.
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I try to photobomb as much as possible.
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For the Negro, Andrew Johnson did less than nothing when once he realized that the chief beneficiary of labor and economic reform in the South would be freedmen. His inability to picture Negroes as men made him oppose efforts to give them land; oppose national efforts to educate them; and above all things, oppose their rights to vote.
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I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.
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The more I push myself to really live and really experience things and step outside of my comfort zone, the more the songs are allowed to flow.
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I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
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I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.
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Like its Senate counterpart, H.R. 1908 is the product of years of bipartisan collaboration. And now, by passing S. 1145, the U.S. Senate has a similar opportunity to restore our patent regime to its rightful position of protecting inventors' property rights and spurring innovation. These are values that all Americans should rally behind.
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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.
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Many think kids have lots of time and few responsibilities. And that's just not true. They are stressed and under pressure.
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I always draw from things around me that people around me have gone through... The story that could be taken really literally is not from my life exactly. But bits and pieces are, and the sentiment behind it is.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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Jazz is progressive, and it's alive.
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I wish I could paint more.. .I do dozens of sketches for oils.. ..if I do one that interests me I go on to make a painting but that happens only two or three times a year.
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Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow on another like the withered leaves of Autumn.
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Some people have a phobia of midgets. They're, like, scared of them. I have the opposite - I see them, and I want to hold them down, cuddle them, be like, 'Come here, you little nugget. Who's your mommy now?' So cute!
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Most people say, 'Well, Earl, you sing the blues,' or however they want to categorize it. I just sing songs.
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In the West, people tend to look at life as spectators, but in the East, people are the thing.
