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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I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically getting killed for the ideas or illusions that give them a reason for living (what is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying). I therefore conclude that the meaning of life is the most urgent of questions.
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When I was growing up, I always knew I'd be in the top of my class in math, and that gave me a lot of self-confidence.
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A race isn't won until it's over.
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Never give up, have the passion. Don't be afraid.
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To be successful in show business, all you need are 50 good breaks.
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You can't know the meaning of the lesson until class is over!
