Sun Ra Quotes
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Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
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I always wanted to do things on my own terms, and unfortunately in this industry, that's not something that is easily given. You're at the mercy of other people, but then you still have that drive to continue on. That's an equation for a lot of heartbreak.
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I really enjoy dancing. When there's music around, I can't help it; I start dancing, especially when I'm with friends.
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Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.
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Obviously, for me, story is first and foremost, even in the face of the attractive idea of having all the cast there, or having a great piece of talent come to it.
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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.
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The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.
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If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.
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I see these guys, they throw a guy into the ropes and they do a back flip and then clothesline the guy and it looks stupid. Why don't you just clothesline the guy?
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Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.
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Sneakers are not my thing.
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A European army must protect the continent from two sides, from the east and from the south, in terms of protecting against terrorism and migration.
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Truth be told, ginormous portions have become a pet peeve of mine.
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A healthy vision of the future is not possible without an accurate knowledge of the past.
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When investors, particularly investment bankers, talk about splitting up companies, there's a lot of discussion about multiple expansion, and the reality is multiple expansion is an outcome, not a strategy.
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And I'm not so in love with making people mad that I want to live my life around it.
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You go through phases. You have to reinvent reasons for playing, and one year's answer might not do for another.
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Insurance companies can no longer refuse to cover Americans with pre-existing conditions. That's what change looks like.
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Even when I was writing 'Where'd You Go, Bernadette,' I started to appreciate Seattle's many charms.
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My music is very innovative, in a class by itself. Nobody else is saying anything of value. What I'm trying to do is get people to think, to alter their consciousness. It's not your typical platinum formula for success.
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But me contradicting a news story is not going to make my words fact. It will just create a new news story.
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How these curiosities would be quite forgott, did not such idle fellowes as I am putt them downe.
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Ultimately, my daughter is not going to learn from what I do, not from what I say. For better or for worse. I see that everyday.
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Today's symphonic music is sponsored by the upper structures of society.
