John Henrik Clarke Quotes
There was a time when all dark-skinned people were called Ethiopians, for the Greeks referred to Africa as, 'The Land Of The Burnt-Face People.'
John Henrik Clarke
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You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.
K. D. Lang
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Work is so much fun that it doesn't really seem like downtime when I'm not. But cooking, spending time with my family, friends and dog are what I'm usually doing when I'm not working on something.
Bailee Madison
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I went from being a jock to a hippie. It was a very clear-cut decision. I had to be one or the other. I had to forsake that other aspect of myself. Or thought that I had to, which is regrettable. Quickly, I was back in the pine trees with the hippies, listening to my Jimi Hendrix and my Janis Joplin and turning on, tuning in, and dropping out.
J. K. Simmons
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Democracy is not about one party dominating.
Ed Townsend
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
Sam Kinison
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I do comedy to give people an ephemeral escape from the tragedy that permeates everyday life.
T. J. Miller
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If we launch a new product, we have to time it right. It's not about how soon you can do it but how well we can do it.
Bhavish Aggarwal
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I think there's a certain level of trust that I have with women. I've always been honest, even when I haven't had good times in my life or my movie bombed or I've had great success. I've owned up to all of it.
Halle Berry
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Our focus was directed at developing the best possible and easiest to use product, and this is where we invested our time. Realize that you won't be able to bring the same focus to everything in the beginning. There won't be enough people or enough hours in the day. So, focus on the 20 percent that makes 80 percent of the difference.
Marc Benioff
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Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.
Neal Cassady
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If a poet does not tell the truth about time, his or her work will not survive it. Past or present, there is a human dimension to time, human voices within it, and human griefs ordained by it.
Eavan Boland
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There was a time when all dark-skinned people were called Ethiopians, for the Greeks referred to Africa as, 'The Land Of The Burnt-Face People.'
John Henrik Clarke