Odetta Holmes (Odetta) Quotes
The blues is celebration, because when you take sorrow and turn it into music, you transform it.
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I brought several national projects to Katihar.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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Treasure the things about you that make you different and unique.
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Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
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Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.
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I just have always felt that I think we know that it's an ensemble show, and it's very hard to pick a show to submit when you're nominated, because usually everyone has a very strong part in every episode.
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I've always used black girls on the runway, because I think they're beautiful. I don't need people to tell me, 'You need to use black girls.' I did for 20 years; it's not a new thing for me.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I like someone who's not afraid to be a kid!
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Catholic schools in Indonesia routinely accept non-Catholic students, but exempt them from studying religion. Obama's school documents, though, wrongly list him as being Indonesian.
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EmTech Asia brings together some of the brightest minds in technology and computer security.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.
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I love the produce section at the grocery store.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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This is the voice of Vietnam Broadcasting from Hanoi, capitol of the Democratic republic of Vietnam.
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Dad always explained the car engine when he repaired it, and he had many technical books, so I was making electromagnets by age eight as well as reading my mother's medical and nursing books. I suspect I was born with a boundless curiosity, and this was encouraged through my childhood.
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Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.
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Whatever your business is, we all have a drama going on in our own lives. We're all unhappy about something. You have sickness, marital problems, a myriad of things going wrong in everybody's life. You have to deal with those things right away. You have to get their full concentration on football. I'd like to be able to communicate even more with my players when things aren't going bad, but it's just like everything else in life. The problems take over, and you wind up chasing the problems. I'd say handling people is the most important thing you do as a coach. Dealing with people, really, is all football is.
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The first time I toured the U.K. was in the early '90s with Billy Pilgrim, so I know how much the people there love music.
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I want to be someone making music/with my coming.
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I think artists are aware that talking gives a songwriter so much material. If they just tell us what's happening, it's so much easier for us to write a song that's specific to them.
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If you think of the ideas of open source applied to information in an encyclopedia, you get to Wikipedia - lots and lots of small contributions that bubble up to something that's meaningful.
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The blues is celebration, because when you take sorrow and turn it into music, you transform it.
