Paul Robeson Quotes
The faces and the tactics of the leaders may change every four years, or two, or one, but the people go on forever.
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My experience growing up in a rough and tumble town in the blue-collar world of Western Pennsylvania in the 1970s was that anything a man did was always more important than anything a woman did.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.
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I take my Bible with me, sometimes two of them, when I travel.
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I never dreamt, in my dream, I'm Dalai Lama.
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For me, one of the downfalls of electronic music is that it can feel a little soulless or robotic.
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Even if the music industry simply gave away all their music people would complain that they don't have the bandwidth to download all the stuff - the problem would merely shift from availability to distribution.
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I was always able to get money, but now it's a little bit more money, and I manage the same way. I just want to see my family do better.
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People think that, when you're doing comedy, nothing means anything, that people run around and act crazy. It's quite the opposite. The stakes are life-and-death.
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I remember auditioning for the Wonder Woman television show and being told that I wasn't the Wonder Woman type, but if I wanted to play the best friend, I could audition for that.
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I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.
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I don't think France is a racist country, I really don't, but we do still have many problems with our immigrant past, and there's a shame that goes with that, that works both ways, in the host and in the post-immigrant generation.
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There was a sadness over me, a melancholy. That's always been a part of me – those are some of the things that lead you to the arts.
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'Green Garden' is about beauty and joy and lush green and dance and excitement and smiling from within.
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It's always overwhelming when you come to another country and you're embraced in such a positive way.
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Did people think I sounded black? Totally, but that was a marketing tool as well, but also this is how I grew up and these are my influences.
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One of Kuhn's marvellous legacies is science studies as we know it today.
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You don't really know what to believe until the Government denies it.
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If there used to be 100 people at a major working on a record, now there are 18, but they're the good ones. There's a lean, mean hunger.
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People like to cherry-pick the parts of their career that they're either in the midst of or that they're the most proud of, but the truth is careers and lives are tapestries.
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If someone doubts our right to exist - be it on the hills of Umm al-Fahem or in Munich's beer halls, in Gaza's crowded streets or in the thick woods of Babi Yar - it's their problem. Proud states do not break into wails and crawl under the carpet when they discover someone doesn't love them.
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The faces and the tactics of the leaders may change every four years, or two, or one, but the people go on forever.
