Joseph Abboud Quotes
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People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
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Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies.
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We are known as one of the few truly antifascist families in Munich.
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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
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Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools.
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We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?
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I never did feel any pressure in Jamaica. You just someone, not nobody big.
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I love to see a woman in a sexy, strappy sandal no matter what. It just looks beautiful.
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I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.
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You have to go through those mountains and valleys - because that's what life is: soul growth.
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Sexual dreams aren't usually about sex.
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I've been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks.
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My favorite sport, frankly, is college football. I'm a college football junkie, even though I'm associated with golf and like golf and have played it all my life.
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Language is fun; it's fun to try.
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I was a late bloomer. I was 38 when my first book was out and 43 when my first crime novel was out. I had a story that could only be told as a crime story. I think the genre is good; it deals with the fundamental questions of life and death. The problem is there are too many bad crime stories.
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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.
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Going back to my film education, I always have that voice in my head that's always screaming, 'Sell out!' And that's good: you want that, because it keeps you on your toes, and it's important to remember what's actually important.
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In cartoons and in improv, anything can happen. You can be any character you want. The rules of real life don't always apply.
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I feel like I'm one of the more creative artists in the game. I think I'm going to be here for a while.
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... I distrust manifest knowledge.
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All things are nourished together without their injuring one another. The courses of the seasons, and of the sun and moon, are pursued without any collision among them. The smaller energies are like river currents; the greater energies are seen in mighty transformations. It is this which makes heaven and earth so great.
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Taste is so much more important than fashion.
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There are no seasons anymore. Fashion has become one long run-on sentence.
