Jane Rule Quotes
Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some extent I think of all of us as artists, because we have voices and we are each of us unique.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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I think a woman gets more if she acts feminine.
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More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
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It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.
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I do make a good ragu pasta, which everyone seems to like. Or that could be just me talking; who knows what they really think. I actually stole the recipe from my older sister Vera, who also loves to cook. I took all my recipes from her.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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The whole period of the '60s changed a lot of us; there was never a decade like that in American history... to have the decade capture one of the great accomplishments of this century: man landing on the moon.
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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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When you have too much scheme, sometimes it's hard to work on all the things you have to, and you can make effort the top priority of your game.
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I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.
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I didn't get into rap to be no lyrical genius. I got into rap to feed my family and help the people in need around me, that's it. A lot of people say, 'Man, Waka Flocka ain't go no lyrics,' so I was like, 'Yeah, you right!'
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.
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I've definitely had those moments when I think a relationship with somebody is one way, and then it just flips.
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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
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Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.
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I have great, great confidence in our capital markets and in our financial institutions. Our financial institutions, banks and investment banks, are strong. Our capital markets are resilient. They're efficient. They're flexible.
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I can remember the first time I ever recorded my vocals on to a beat. Cat Coore from Third World - a legendary Jamaican band - had a little demo set up at his house. I'm very good friends with his eldest son, Shiah, who plays with me now. So we were rhyming over a track by the dancehall artist Peter Metro. I've still got it somewhere.
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I do a lot of reading, meditating, and praying to stay as grounded as I can be in this crazy world.
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Listen at me. The end is almost never far off any time at all!
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Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some extent I think of all of us as artists, because we have voices and we are each of us unique.
