Uzodinma Iweala Quotes
I hear a good song and I start thinking, 'Oh shoot. You know there's a story that can be told to this,' and whatnot.
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I consider myself as a free spokesman for the people.
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Our intent of how we're going to play doesn't change.
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I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.
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Producing should be a creative responsibility.
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Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.
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It's always nice to have more than just two hands if you're making cakes.
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Twenty-six million Russians died in the defense of their homeland against the Nazis.
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Hydrogen holds great promise to meet many of our future energy needs, and it addresses national security and our environmental concerns. Hydrogen is the simplest, most abundant element in the universe.
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Always wear sunscreen and wash your makeup off at night.
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There are really three parts to the creative process. First there is inspiration, then there is the execution, and finally there is the release.
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It proved easier to buy the farm to get the mineral rights than to buy the coal rights alone.
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My musical influence is really from my father. He was a DJ in college. My parents met at New York University. So he listened to, you know, Motown, and he listened to Bob Dylan. He listened to Grateful Dead and Rolling Stones, but he also listened to reggae music. And he collected vinyl.
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You can never tell when princes will get squinty on you. You can never tell when they might suddenly feel their blood and go all royal.
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For a woman, the typical danger emanating from the unconscious comes from above, from the 'spiritual' sphere personified by the animus, whereas for a man it comes from the chthonic realm of the 'world and woman,' i.e., the anima projected on to the world.
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The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
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God, being a great abyss, to men his depth reveals Who climb the highest peak of the eternal hills
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I've spent most of my life playing with Tom Petty, and he's a damn good songwriter.
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The poet is like the earth's shadow. The sun moves, and the poet writes something down.
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In our school you were searched for guns and knifes on the way in and if you didn't have any, they gave you some.
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Cities are broke, there are no jobs, people without a high school diploma and sometimes even with a college degree can't get jobs.
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The images of mankind have become the most basic thing about them. And they're all software, and disembodied. (p. 346)
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These systems attempt to box God into a government confined within the perspective of man. Yet when humanity is used as the starting point for interpreting and interacting with God's creation, faulty theology and sociology emerge as mankind attempts to fashion God into the image of man.
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Some artists will tell you that's all they want to do is write their own music, and that's great, but George Strait, Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, Garth Brooks, they didn't write everything they recorded, and they've had major, major careers. I think it's all about the best song.
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I hear a good song and I start thinking, 'Oh shoot. You know there's a story that can be told to this,' and whatnot.
