Mavis Staples Quotes
I never sang for a Grammy, for money, for fame. That's my whole purpose for singing: for people, for the fans.
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The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.
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If Nixon is not forced to turn over tapes of his conversations with the ring of men who were conversing on their violations of the law, then liberty will soon be dead in this nation.
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I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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All of the agreed-upon pariahs throughout pop-culture history put their identities into the thing we decry. And yet we derive our own identities from the act of hating. We connect on the things we are disappointed in. Some may argue that nothing in history gathers a crowd like complaining about Lady Gaga's meat dress.
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I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire... that's the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure.
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We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.
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I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.
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You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it's important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it.
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And of course I've got kids of my own now, and they love me being in the Harry Potter films. I'm now part of a phenomenon. You become incredibly cool to your kids, and you get a young fan base. So you became the cool dad at school. You're suddenly hip.
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It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.
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I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
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I can't say that winning the Pen/Faulkner was a dream come true because I would never have dared to dream it.
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I know basic things about belly dancing, but not the technicalities; I want to learn it. I want to learn belly dancing.
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If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.
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When you go to Best Buy and see a DVD of your movie, you think it's amazing. But then there's a whole other world that comes with it. It's a very small percent that's difficult, stalker-like, or annoying. Most people are just so gracious and so nice. As cheesy as it sounds, that's the thing that really keeps you going.
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I have no fancy living at all. Well, I have a house in Sun Valley. Five acres in the woods. I guess that's fancy.
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I didn't get any crazy sponsors. I don't have any extra sponsors since I got the belt.
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It could be ventured to understand obsessive compulsive neurosis as the pathological counterpart of religious development, to define neurosis as an individual religiosity; to define religion as a universal obsessive compulsive neurosis.
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We try to keep our audience involved. It is a show, but we want to make sure that everybody - us, them - has a good time.
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The whole point of the game is not to stick with one thing, because when that one thing ends, then what are you going to do? For me, I have movies, '106 & Park,' music, and other things to fall back on.
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The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.
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I never sang for a Grammy, for money, for fame. That's my whole purpose for singing: for people, for the fans.
