Ralph Stanley Quotes
I have plenty of good friends that I think the world of - and Bob Dylan is one of them, and I like his music - but with some others... their music I just don't care too much about all of it. Some of it I like.
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Hip-hop is rich in musical allusion. It takes something that already existed, respects it, and reuses it.
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I was in New York. I had been doing theater for many years, and then I got hired to a little part - they weren't calling it an extra, but I didn't have lines. It was a 'featured' part.
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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I always wear the same thing at home. I can't be bothered with jewelry. My pants have elastic waists. I like to be comfortable. There are so many more important things to worry about.
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I'm quite ignorant about fashion and I'm colourblind, so it's all a tad tricky. My only knowledge of that world comes through Christopher Bailey, whom I first met in 2008 when I did a campaign for Burberry that featured musicians, artists, actors and sportsmen.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
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We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
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Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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Whenever I tell people I'm from Miami, they always ask me about the beach. But I can count on one hand the times I went there as a kid.
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Love is a credulous thing.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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For me to be as effective as possible, I intend to sharpen those skills I need to successfully lead an organization that is growing in size and complexity with each passing year.
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Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.
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I grew up on a wide range of stuff. OutKast, they been around for over 20 years, and some of the L.A. cats like Defari, Dilated Peoples and Likwit Crew. I was always going to these shows and catching the KRS-One tennis ball, as he would throw those out, EPMD. I could go on and on.
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I do Taekwondo and sometimes I paint.
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America has absorbed people from around the world, and there is an Indian in every part of the world. This characterizes both the societies. Indians and Americans have co-existed in their natural temperament.
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I love singing Christmas carols. I know every harmony to every music-hall Christmas song.
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I spent quite a bit of time in choirs, growing up, and in the world-touring music group Anuna.
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Music is a lot more powerful than anyone gives it credit for. I can sing something right now and make you feel something that you would not feel if I said it. If somebody can sing and connect to people just through voice, just through sonics, capturing an emotion, that's a direct string to somebody's soul.
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But if kids take up things like hockey and football they will go back to it.
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I have plenty of good friends that I think the world of - and Bob Dylan is one of them, and I like his music - but with some others... their music I just don't care too much about all of it. Some of it I like.
