Pearl Cleage Quotes
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In English, the sounds and melodies I created were an inspiration to me, and words came to me as I explored the sounds, and from there I was able expand on the meaning.
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I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life.
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Over and over I'm on the point of giving it up.
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'The Pianist' is a movie I could watch over and over again.
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I never was a popular kid in class.
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The Negro was freed and turned loose as a penniless, landless, naked, ignorant laborer. Ninety-nine per cent were field hands and servants of the lowest class.
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I would love to go to the Himalayas and cross over into Nepal to do the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway.
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I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.
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When I'm on stage, I'm quite over the top - I'm quite flamboyant and camp.
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The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
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I'd done 'Peter Pan' in a little pre-K class or whatever.
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If you're going to write thrillers, you have to make a decision if you are going to be realistic or go off and over.
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From 1999 on - until 2003 - I covered publishing in a weekly column for Wired.com and wrote for several other publications - altogether writing over 150 articles.
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Religion is the search for ultimate meaning.
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I know the true meaning of getting by by the skin of my teeth; I do. It doesn't matter whether you've got money or you haven't, whether you're famous or not. This is the case for all women, actually; you have to carry on. You always have to carry on. And you can, because you have to.
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I'm this overachiever type, I'll just work and work and I'll just do it over and over and over again.
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All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men.
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Class is more important than a game.
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From that visit I took away one lesson: Death is the price you pay for underestimating this tenacious enemy.
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If it turns out to be a hit, well, good luck dealing with fame. And if it's not a hit and you can still survive and make music you believe in, well, then you're truly blessed. I think that's where we are now.
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An administration without a police executive is powerless and there were many proofs of this.
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For me, graffiti means making marks on surfaces using just about anything, be it markers, spray, paint, chalk, lipstick, varnish, ink. Or it can be the result of scratches and incisions. The aim is to maintain the energy created by disturbance or excitement in the street.
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For most singers the first half of the career involves extending one's repertoire, the second half trimming it.
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You can't know the meaning of the lesson until class is over!
