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 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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I had heard about how people struggle and how hard it is to get into acting. But I did not care because it's something I love.
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It may be that the seemingly intrinsic attraction that past time has for me is merely a desire for escapism, as I look out at the nation and world with little optimism.
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Rage is a powerful energy that with diligent practice can be transformed into fierce compassion. However much we disagree with our enemies, our task is to identify with them. They too feel justified in their point of view.
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I'm realistic about my age and realistic about the fact that there's an awful lot less in front of me than there is behind me. I've always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist.
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We're all human beings; people make mistakes.
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It's possible to be hard-boiled and not noir, just as it's possible to be noir and not hard-boiled. And it is possible to be both. People debate endlessly what is hard-boiled and what is noir.
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The blues is celebration, because when you take sorrow and turn it into music, you transform it.
