Scott Joplin Quotes
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I think people do their bravest work when given an elusive canvas. That would be seemingly the weirdest, but also the most wonderful.
Laura Dern -
We're supposed to be an example of freedom, and if we are doing things that are injustice to people, then what is our statement?
Forest Whitaker -
The state must be the first to be organized and totally committed to serving the interests of the people.
Samora Machel -
If there are negative people around me, I just try to distance myself from that.
Zach LaVine -
When people talk about the impact of mobile dating, everyone focuses on real-time meeting - this idea that my pocket will vibrate every time a hot girl walks by. That's important. But it's not transformative.
Sam Yagan -
I think that most people don't even know that I do other things. They think that Homer is all that I do.
Dan Castellaneta
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Tolerance, openness to argument, openness to self-doubt, willingness to see other people's points of view - these are very liberal and enlightened values that people are right to hold, but we can't allow them to delude us to the point where we can't recognise people who are needlessly perpetrating human misery.
Sam Harris -
I didn't grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, I've never wanted to speak to an all-white audience.
G-Eazy -
The women who don't feel that people think they're sexy are the ones who seem to titillate in that way, because they don't feel like they're getting that kind of approval.
Vanessa Carlton -
To let the people know there was life beyond Shirley Dean, we decided to focus on voter registration; each day I set up my card table somewhere in the district, signed people up, and passed out noses.
Wavy Gravy -
Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I'm disregarding all the rules I've seen as people approach writing music. I'm trying to break them.
Verite
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When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.
Edith Wharton -
I think when people make a record with a goal in mind - like taking it to the next level or making them seem more mature - that gets in the way of writing great songs.
Taylor Swift -
My friends and the people I know understand that I'm going to ask them what they're doing, how they're dating, who they're dating, where they're going and what they're doing. I'm constantly asking those questions and making sure I'm in touch with the customer.
Sam Yagan -
We're not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists of, how you examine your own conscience, how you examine the inner world, how you examine your dreams.
Irvin D. Yalom -
People who are making it to 100 live in environments where they are regularly nudged into physical activity.
Dan Buettner -
I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.
Vikram Seth
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I like shocking people just because, like, I can wear a dress, too. Not even for people to go, 'Oh she's grown up,' but to show people that I'm actually a girl.
Maisie Williams -
The first step in solving a problem is to recognize that it does exist.
Zig Ziglar -
I find myself a bit boring because I somehow always wanted to be MSF.
Joanne Liu -
Harry Dresden: It's a place with a history, the neighbors are quiet, and my rent is cheap-though less so than it was before the demon thrashed my place.
Jim Butcher -
When I'm dead twenty-five years, people are going to begin to recognize me.
Scott Joplin