Melvin Van Peebles Quotes
Hollywood desires money but they could not stand the political content.
Melvin Van Peebles
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I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.
Wendell Berry
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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.
Abraham Lincoln
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Originally, I was against gay marriage because I was opposed to all marriage, being an old-fashioned gay bohemian. The straight people I knew in the sixties were very much opposed to it. I was, too, and it was never a possibility for gays, but when I saw how opposed the Religious Right was to it, I thought it a fight worth fighting.
Edmund White
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People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive.
E. O. Wilson
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I'd also like to do a play. I've never done theater, and constantly changing and refining a performance is something I'd like to do, even though it may sound like work to some people - and it probably is work.
Nastassja Kinski
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Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy.
Vaclav Havel
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Let me make one point about the hunger strike in the Maze prison. I want this to be utterly clear. There can be no political justification for murder or any other crime. The Government will never concede political status to the hunger strikers, or to any others convicted of criminal offences in the Province.
Margaret Thatcher
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Part of my desire to play music was because I wanted to escape the art world and the politics of it; the petty gossip-y art world. But you know, I feel like they're both equal forms of expression.
Kim Gordon
Sonic Youth
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Growing up, I had a face that people wanted to tell things to, and I grew up with adults who had so much to say. They had lived through decades of unbelievable poverty, starvation, political upheaval, chaos.
Jenny Zhang
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Blessed is trust, for it blesses both those who have it to give and those who receive it.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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A lot of drummers, obviously they want to show off and do all these fills and everything, but the main objective is to play for the song.
John Tempesta
The Cult
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Hollywood desires money but they could not stand the political content.
Melvin Van Peebles
