Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes
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Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen mister, no man alive can throw any harder than Smokey Joe Wood.
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I wanted very much to be Miles Davis when I was a boy, but without the practice. It just looked like an endless road.
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It became clear to me in an instant that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality.
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I feel alive inside only when obstacles are arising that must be overcome and eliminated.
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It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.
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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
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I like to take pictures of lots of things: people-such as my nephews, my dogs, and just interesting objects that I see. For instance, I might take a picture of flowers by the side of the road, an old sign or a fence.
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Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what he was going to be when he grew up. Of course I expected to hear him say a sailor, a soldier, a hunter, or something else that seems heroic to childhood, and I was very much surprised when he answered innocently, 'A man.'
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History is the heavy traffic that prevents us from crossing the road. We wait, more or less patiently, for it to pause, so that we can get to the liquor store or the laundromat or the burger bar.
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All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.
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I've dreamed of being on the road, traveling and touring, for as long as I've been into doing music. It's what I live for. I just wanna be Willie Nelson.
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My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.
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Taste is the common sense of genius.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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I feel like we have to keep our eyes on the road. Being nostalgic is like taking an offramp and getting a sandwich - and then you get back on the highway. I don't want to be spending the rest of my life at the gas station.
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Playing live is everything. Sometimes being on the road is hard, and it's a lot of work, and tiring. From a musical point of view, you improve all the time. Not only that, but you learn how to deal with people and deal with energy in a live setting.
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Though the demonetisation move should be welcomed, govt should have planned well in advance to ensure that no common man suffer.
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It's hard for young players to see the big picture. They just see three or four years down the road.
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If you have no road map, you have to create your own.
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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You cannot have black music without something soulful in it, whether it's lyrically, how it's performed, or how it's expressed.
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God is not looking for extraordinary characters as His instruments, but He is looking for humble instruments through whom He can be honored throughout the ages.
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The thing we don't want to do is overstate the benefits, but there is all kinds of proof that exercise, both physical and mental, increases brain activity.
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Being alive is a common road. It's what we notice makes us different.
