John Trudell Quotes
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The strongest institution in the hands of the European Union is the euro.
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If you needed to borrow a cup of sugar, you knocked on your neighbour's door.
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I think I know a thing or two about the way people love, but I don't know anything about hatred, psychosis, cruelty. Or maybe I don't have the guts to admit that I do.
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I felt giving birth was the most creative act of all my creative acts - literally creation!
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Another thing: despite my youthful appearance, I am quite capable of making decisions.
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I think there is a real thing going on where writers are feeling more liberated to write with a big canvas because of a demonstrable, continued appetite for long-form storytelling.
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I realized late in life that my twin passions are music and people.
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For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty, and it's not what it is for me.
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I must be honest here; I don't think there's such a thing as 'unconventional' when it comes to YA. YA readers are the most open-minded in the literary world. They'll read anything.
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I was kind of bored playing drums in a band. Which was depressing, because playing in the band was kind of a golden ticket.
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I like to write a lot of satire.
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I talk to student-athletes. I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes. You need to get an education, keep your hands clean and try to represent the university.
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My dad grew up in a mud hut and studied by candlelight. He was 14 when he got a scholarship to Russia. He was super clever - the cleverest person. He landed in 5ft of snow, and was alone at 14, studying science and engineering. He didn't have a bed, and he slept on a table.
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A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
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I'm always gonna be compared to the greatest cats that's in the game, but I lack a little bit less when I'm not as visible as other guys. So I live with that thought right there - yo, you still gotta work, still got more to do. One thing where I come from you gotta remember is, don't get souped up.
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People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
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Men are like mascara, they run at the slightest display of emotion.
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It's a lot more fun being a critic than being the one criticized.
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My life is an open pamphlet.
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It was just terrible! And the worst part was, I knew what a bore I was being, I knew how I was depressing people, or even hurting their feelings- but I just couldn't stop! I just could not stop picking!
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'Superunknown,' maybe more than most albums, didn't reveal itself to be what it was until the very end - literally until we were three quarters of the way through mixing it.
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Every company's greatest assets are its customers, because without customers there is no company.
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We often think the only way to create happiness is to try to control the outer circumstances of our lives, to try to fix what seems wrong or to get rid of everything that bothers us. But the real problem lies in our reaction to those circumstances. What we have to change is the mind and the way it experiences reality.
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They are going to become more brutal. They are going to become more oppressive.
