Harvey Ball Quotes
I made a circle with a smile for a mouth on yellow paper, because it was sunshiny and bright.
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
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If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good of a rapper. I need to focus on hip-hop and focus on making the music, so that when the activists come to me and they need my voice to create a platform, then I've got enough people listening to me. Not because I'm conscious, but because I'm dope.
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That's double-edged: it's amazing that they're bringing me in and showing people new ideas, and at the same time it's a little hard because seventy percent of the time or even higher I'm not going to get those roles.
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Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
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Take chances, find your voice in fashion, and find what you like, and find what makes you feel good, and do that.
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Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.
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I listen to very little music, particularly contemporary. If I listen to it, it's going to be my own music, some arrangement or something. I spend so much time listening that the way I relax is by watching things, a comedy; that's my way to wind down.
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Guns are beautiful. But I don't like what they do.
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My dear Miss Glory, Robots are not people. They are mechanically more perfect than we are, they have an astounding intellectual capacity, but they have no soul.
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A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.
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I always think that struggle can bring out the best in people - or the worst.
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You give the money where you want it.
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They say it all started out with a big bang. But, what I wonder is, was it a big bang or did it just seem big because there wasn't anything else drown it out at the time?
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There's just no telling what I'll do. But I can say for certain I will continue to play, record, and put out music.
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And of course, pop music is all about memorability and simplicity and positive messages and a little dash of joy.
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I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work.
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Probably everything we do is a publicity stunt … we are not here to gather members, to please, to placate, to make friends. We're here to hold the radical line.
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They never noticed that he was in fact what they only pretended to be.
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We must provide adequate funding for an essential program that serves as a lifeline to some of our most vulnerable citizens.
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If reincarnation is a useful biological idea it is certain that somewhere in the universe it will happen.
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One thing a lyricist must learn is not to fall in love with his own lines. Once you learn that, you can walk away from the lyric and look at it with a reasonable degree of objectivity.
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Campus speech codes, that folly of the navel-gazing left, have increased the appeal of the right. Ideas must confront ideas. When hurt feelings and bruised egos are more important than the unfettered life of the mind, the universities have committed suicide.
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I made a circle with a smile for a mouth on yellow paper, because it was sunshiny and bright.
