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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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.
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Keep all your personalities out of your work. Forget and forgive.
Ford Frick
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The problem with the world is there's too many stupid people and nobody to eat them.
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One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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I'm not cynical. I cry at 'ET.' And 'Kung Fu Panda!'
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Democracy and freedom began bouncing all over the world like bad checks.
