Baratunde Thurston Quotes
There are so many ways to be and to be black at the same time, but we're finally seeing that full range expressed much more widely than before.
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The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.
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If I was to do anything besides acting, I would be a fireman or a beat cop. I'd do a regular job.
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The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.
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The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
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I was under the false impression that I could sing in high school, so I did a lot of musical stuff. I can't sing or dance, so that was entertaining for everyone.
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Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
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If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.
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The key to fashion is, you don't want to look like you're trying. You've gotta be natural.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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I'm just going to have fun. Maybe that will be the most important thing to do.
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I always have a million things going on at once, but I try to put my energy into the most immediate need.
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And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration.
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Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
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I don't think nobody's doubting I can play basketball.
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To my friends pictured within.
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We can't possibly have a summer love. So many people have tried that the name's become proverbial. Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring, a charlatan in place of the warm balmy nights I dream of in April. It's a sad season of life without growth...It has no day.
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There's a famous artist, Ron English, in New York, that just, or Andy Warhol for that matter, that did pop art that terrorized society. And that's, for the last like 10, 15 years, that's all I wanted to do, is terrorize society and make them look into a mirror and see what the hell we have wrought.
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There are so many ways to be and to be black at the same time, but we're finally seeing that full range expressed much more widely than before.
