Vine Deloria, Jr. Quotes
Do certain sets of circumstances lie ahead of us wherein we change the world radically by the choices we make?
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We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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When you fall in love, you become weak.
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I love Queen Latifah! Queen Latifah is so beautiful! Every time you see her, if it's in a cosmetics ad, or on the red carpet, she's always flawless.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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I feel the audience are friends that have come to see us. That was always how we look on it in the Carter Family. I've never suffered stage fright.
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I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age.
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If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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I would really love to collaborate with Gwen Stefani and M.I.A.; artists that kind of make sense with me vocally. And in terms of style, I'm a very visual artist. I really love Pharell. I love people that really care about drums, and I like beat-heavy.
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Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.
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I've fallen down crevasses, been bitten by snakes, been knocked unconscious, had various limbs broken and once, a heavy camera came plunging down which very nearly decapitated me.
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I want to write weirder stuff and convince people that it's Top 40.
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When you play a character, there are choices you have to make about the past, the present, the future, etc. You have to make those choices on your own a lot.
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What makes America special is that people come here, assimilate and become American with all of the rights and responsibilities citizenship bestows.
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After all is said and done, a life isn’t significant except for its impact on other lives.
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A real important thing is that, though I rely on my husband for love, I rely on myself for strength.
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We have three daughters, our own. And, of course, there's nothing more frightening than something bad happening to them. And also, the thought of our children turning bad in some ways is another frightening thought.
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Do certain sets of circumstances lie ahead of us wherein we change the world radically by the choices we make?
