Ralph Ellison Quotes
Man's hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or a moaning dove.
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Even as a kid, I'd have a recorder, and I'd lean it up against a TV and record 'I Love Lucy.' I loved hearing the audience laughing. It was really exciting to me.
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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As a European I had fit in almost seamlessly in New York for the last 25 years, but in Oklahoma I stood out like a sore thumb.
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A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbiased in our reporting. That's one of the fundamentals of good journalism.
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I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.
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Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
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'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at that particular moment.
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When it comes to extracurricular activities, many children are getting too much of a good thing.
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Starting with 'Forever, Interrupted,' I somehow convinced myself that in order to create content, I had to consume content. What this means is that I have legitimized binge-watching television and told myself that I must do it for work.
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I have truly eclectic taste in music, and I seem to cycle through phases in terms of to what's inspiring me. I'll go from Beethoven to Sigur Ros; world music, Brit-pop, classic rock, blues/jazz, even the odd bit of heavy metal.
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
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The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
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Frankly, I got into the movies because I like the movies a lot.
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I do cardio, but I don't like it as much. I'd rather do weights.
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I never thought about being famous.
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A film of my life would never happen!
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With acting, I felt like I had a lot to prove because I didn't study it; I didn't work my way up in a traditional sense.
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Shouldn't you put the same amount of effort into your giving as you might for your for-profit investments? After all, philanthropy is an investment, and one in which lives - not profits - are at stake.
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I don't think anybody in my family meant there to be any pressure for me to write. But our parents were incredibly verbal and wrote for a living. The house was full of books, and we all grew up steeped in language. I mean, our mother recited poetry at the dinner table.
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I hope I can compete in one or two Olympics in my career. Of course I would like to win a medal, but just being there would be awesome.
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Maybe 100. As long as Americans are not being injured or harmed or wounded or killed, it's fine with me and I hope it would be fine with you if we maintain a presence in a very volatile part of the world where al-Qaeda is training, recruiting, equipping and motivating people every single day.
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I have a lot of faith in the power of joking to make something thoughtful.
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Man's hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or a moaning dove.
