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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I write to reach people's common sense and intelligence, to show them that if they unite they can make a different world possible.
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Home life is a foreign environment for most guys. So it's natural to show them being idiots at home.
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The humble man makes room for progress; the proud man believes he is already there.
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I am never bored, never short of anything to do and I don't even ever feel lonely. I am quite gregarious and I get out and about a lot, but sometimes it is just wonderful to be on your own.
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Being alive is a common road. It's what we notice makes us different.
