N. Scott Momaday Quotes
Although my grandmother lived out her long life in the shadow of Rainy Mountian, the immense landscape of the continental interior lay like memory in her blood
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Well, the crazy thing for me is I think out of anything that's happened in the last year, all the success, people always ask what do you guys do with the money? I don't think they realize we're not really making any money.
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I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.
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It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
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Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.
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TV, film, and theater are considered art, and art is a reflection of life. What happens in life includes violence, unfortunately.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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Honesty is something you can't wear out.
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One thing I noticed working in the Bronx is that leaders come in the craziest places. They don't always show up at community board meetings. Sometimes it's just the guys on the corner that the boys on the block respect.
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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
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Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
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I'm ready for a different America.
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I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.
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I will only say that many freedom fighters of India found their calling in the institutions of Britain. And many makers of modern India, including several of my distinguished predecessors, from Jawaharlal Nehru to Dr. Manmohan Singh, passed through their doors.
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Football was what I was good at, and it was what I loved.
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My role now is as an artist and as a mogul to inspire and give others opportunities.
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The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute power over the family.
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Obviously, I love country music, so I wanna be able to live in the country music genre and then play to country music fans.
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The main difference between service and manufacturing is the service department doesn't know that they have a product.
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It's hard to look inside a person to answer a question about why anybody wants to be president. I suppose a combination of ambition, ego, and a real feeling that he could make a difference and could accomplish some things. All you ever had to do for Jimmy Carter was to tell him something was impossible, and he would usually do it.
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I wasn't like those girls who give birth and are back on the runway. It took me probably six months to gain 45 pounds and I would say it took me double that time to lose it.
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Childhood is a tissue of lies that endure in the past tense.
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My music is about my life. If it's something that I've lived, then it's something that I've written about.
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Although my grandmother lived out her long life in the shadow of Rainy Mountian, the immense landscape of the continental interior lay like memory in her blood
