Sun Ra Quotes
Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm awful with directions, and I'm not very handy around the house.
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I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.
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This life and this job and this position that I'm put in, it forces you to grow up quick. I definitely got dropped in the deep end.
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I made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best.
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Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.
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As with any moderately famous person, footballers are the source of much gossip. In fact, I'd go as far as to say they are targeted. The fun part as their partner is not knowing who, or what, to believe.
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Anytime you get to work with an actor who is beyond you in experience and talent, I feel like they make you a better actor. You really bring up your game.
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We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day - go to any Washington or New York dinner party where real journalists are present, and you will hear discussion of leaked or classified information. That is journalists' job in a free society.
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If God has allowed me to earn so much money, it is because He knows I give it all away.
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It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing.
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I don't see why OPEC countries should continue to cut production just to keep the price of oil high. This will not affect the industrial countries alone, it will also hit poor countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Who will look after them?
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While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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I can laugh and cry at the drop of a freakin' hat - all at the same time.
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I go on stage with what God gave me - and that's a natural high. I don't need nothing to perk me up. The audience picks me up enough. That's the total God's truth.
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Many people dream about being an entrepreneur, starting their own business, working for themselves, and living the good life. Very few, however, will actually take the plunge and put everything they've got into being their own boss.
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Well, I don't really concern myself too much with what other people make of my work.
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I like analyzing and managing large-scale transaction-processing platforms, recordkeeping administration, and brokerage trading services.
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So, I understand when they make a mistake and everyone at home is throwing their shoe at the television set.
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Turning 50 changed me and I'm far more accepting of myself. I'm not thin, but I am a size 10. I go in at the middle and very much out at the bottom and top. And now I think, 'Well, that's how I am.'
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I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.
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Not many people do at the age of 21 or younger even, know how to act nor could be concerned with anything other than fighting, women and money.
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Much as Africa has leapfrogged straight to mobile phones, it has the opportunity to skip the dirty, grid-tied power plants that currently operate across the developed world and go straight to clean, distributed power.
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Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power.
