Sun Ra Quotes
It's such a tragedy that man endures in killing his brother and his own kind, putting him in jail and insane asylums, letting him lay out in the street.
Quotes to Explore
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When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.
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The metaphor for Palestine is stronger than the Palestine of reality.
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My music is not just about entertainment. It is about enlightenment also.
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Your man Daddy Yankee, some black and white people who know what's going on in the 'hood and the clubs are supporting him and loving him. But he's speaking Spanish, and he's speaking directly to the Latino people, and the people who know the language really dig it.
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Wanting to be understood by an audience that didn't know Russian, I tried to paint musical pictures by emphasizing the phrasing, using voice color more boldly, and varying the shade and nuance.
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I enjoy stand-up because it has the biggest reward: instant gratification. You can hear the people laughing.
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I did 14 movies in six years, I had a cartoon TV show, and I don't want to do that again. I just want to make unique pieces of art. That's why I quit everything when I was 14 and sat around for eight years before I did another movie.
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It's not what you wear it's how you wear it, is what I say.
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I never envisioned when I was reading that comic as a 17-year-old that I would have the opportunity to actually play the character.
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Their effort to place the women upon the same industrial level with themselves in order that all may pull together in the effort to maintain reasonable conditions of life.
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All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.
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A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.
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You have to follow that next step.
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Forecasting is simply not a strength of the species; we are much better with tools and narrative storytelling.
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I think when tattoos are new and colorful, they look bad. But they look better the older and more bleached out they become.
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I try not to carry any character back home because that would be extremely frustrating for my family.
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I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us.
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I started working on ribosomes when I was a post doc, in 1978, when it would have been impossible, really, to solve it. But, it was just a fundamental problem in biology.
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The culture is eating nature; it's overpowering storytelling. Movies are turning into games - it's abut the image, not nuance.
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When I was growing up, until I was 18 or 19, I was totally invested in the classical music world. I had no concept of anything else. The closest thing to a cool band I listened to was Radiohead. Radiohead were the only band I liked in high school. I was just obsessed with classical music, opera, Claude Debussy, and that kind of stuff.
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We all know the tragedy of the dustbowls, the cruel unforgivable erosions of the soil, the depletion of fish or game, and the shrinking of the noble forests. And we know that such catastrophes shrivel the spirit of the people... The wilderness is pushed back, man is everywhere. Solitude, so vital to the individual man, is almost nowhere.
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Yet, do thy worst, old Time; despite thy wrong, My love shall in my verse ever live young.
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It's such a tragedy that man endures in killing his brother and his own kind, putting him in jail and insane asylums, letting him lay out in the street.
