John McWhorter Quotes
'LOL' is one of several texting expressions that convey nuance in a system where you don't have the voice and face to do it the way you normally would.
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Be obscure clearly.
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The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good.
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When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel.
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Personally, I don't trust people who go out of their way to state they never read or watch horror and insist there's something wrong with those of us who do.
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If a woman writes about a domestic situation, everyone automatically assumes that it's about her.
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With my childhood, it's a wonder I'm not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends.
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To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
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I never starved myself.
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I grew up learning from a father who said, 'When you make a mistake or you make a bad decision, you man up and take responsibility.'
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Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direct you.
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If I'm in a slump, I ask myself for advice.
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I just want to keep writing music.
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He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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Breathe through your movements.
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There were exceptions, a couple of families that just plain didn't want to even think about it, although forty years had passed but mostly the people were very interested in talking about it.
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I like to mix British classics, like a great trench, with fun vintage pieces I find in New York. L.A. style is often very relaxed and comfortable, and I appreciate that effortless feel.
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One day of practice is like one day of clean living. It doesn't do you any good.
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Be realistic: Plan for a miracle.
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Me being a skinny guy, I could crawl into the steel pit.
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Why was his hair tinted with gold? An evil omen was golden hair in my life. Why had not the brown of his eyes crushed out and killed the blue? - for brown were his father’s eyes, and his father’s father’s. And thus in the Land of the Color-line I saw, as it fell across my baby, the shadow of the Veil.
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Make mistakes faster.
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Speak low, if you speak love.
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To me, music has to be about freedom. It's the most important thing in my life.
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'LOL' is one of several texting expressions that convey nuance in a system where you don't have the voice and face to do it the way you normally would.
