Sun Ra Quotes
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I've always loved to help people, young people in particular.
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I write fast. But it takes me a while to get going. It's very important for me to see my whole plot. I have to see the end first because I like a surprise in the end. Which is why I let characters and plot gestate in my mind.
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The line between private and public lives is a fertile one for me. I've lived quite a public life, and it's the reason I have used well-known people in my work. I'm interested in what's going on beneath the facades they present to the world, taking them to a place which is uncomfortable.
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I need instant gratification.
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Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.
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I can make them voting machines sing Home Sweet Home.
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Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
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I'm not an easygoing guy as a director.
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If every woman who's had an abortion took tomorrow off in protest, America would grind to a halt. And that would be symbolic: because women grind to a halt if they are not in control of their fertility.
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If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that because you're not going to have to do all that, you know, 'Prison Break' stuff where you can't really behave and speak like people do in a maximum-security prison.
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I was kind of bored playing drums in a band. Which was depressing, because playing in the band was kind of a golden ticket.
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Though men may be deep, mentally they are slow.
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You know, if you have a zoo you don't want the other creatures to see you. You want them to hang out and act properly and, you know, when the monkeys will come and ask for the bananas, they won't act like monkeys. If you want them to act on what their true nature is, you've got to leave them alone.
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That's the unwritten rule in hip-hop. If I get on a record with you, I want to smash you. That's it. Every MC knows that. If I'm on a track with you, I want to be the best on the track. That's just how it is in hip-hop.
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When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, 'I don't have time.' But that's the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space.
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I am married.
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It's getting worse under Prime Minister Modi. The economic miracle has failed, to a degree, and people are reaching back to a kind of imagined Hindu past for a feeling of pride. And that feeling of pride necessarily comes from denying any kind of Muslim heritage. People my age seem to be becoming illiberal in a way that I'm surprised by.
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I've got about 5 million followers on Twitter, and if I tweet anything, there will be faux outrage.
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An angry father is most cruel towards himself.
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We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.
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I took a back seat and did whatever it took for the team to win.
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We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.
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Keep all your personalities out of your work. Forget and forgive.
Ford Frick -
Space is not only high, it's low. It's a bottomless pit.
