Ishmael Reed Quotes
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Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.
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Everybody has to agree that the best thing we can do to start reducing the deficit in this country is to put people back to work.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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I try to do my best.
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I don't like to define my music. To me, music is pure emotion. It's language that can communicate certain emotions and the rhythms cuts across genders, cultures and nationalities. All you need to do is close your eyes and feel those emotions.
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One of my earliest memories is of being about three and a half, climbing through the legs of a man who I didn't know was the famous actor, Patrick Magee.
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Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.
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The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.
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Since first starting my career, I've grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I'm always the youngest.
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If you look at 'West Side Story,' a lot of those numbers are actually pretty cutty, but the cuts are always musically motivated.
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Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.
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To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.
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Germany can make a major difference in the lives of so many Holocaust survivors who are struggling in their later years.
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The moment to tell my barber I was gay just never came up.
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I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
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I have Native American blood. I have African blood. I have European blood.
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The young and the old of widely different races, both with man and animals, express the same state of mind by the same movements.
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Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.
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Hear the mellow wedding bellsGolden bells!What a world of happiness their harmony foretellsThrough the balmy air of nightHow they ring out their delight!
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We already have the material means to eradicate deep poverty and thereby eradicate hunger. We have the material means to begin the tremendous clean up of the environmental messes we've created. We have, I believe, the psychological, emotional and spiritual means to create a world without war. We have the material means to create a world in which unnecessary human suffering has been drastically diminished. My vision for the future is that we do those things. And I think we will.
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It's like I understand images and some people understand poetry.
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I've been training quite hard.
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Democracy and freedom began bouncing all over the world like bad checks.
