Ntozake Shange Quotes
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The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas.
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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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To make headway, improve your head.
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The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.
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Some day, I'd like to be known as the queen of containerboards.
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The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
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After conducting Wagner, Beethoven's triple concerto is like taking an Alka Seltzer.
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The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'
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I want to develop Katihar as an ideal district. That is my dream for my constituency.
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I shall participate, I shall contribute, and in so doing, I will be the gainer.
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Insults are the business of the court.
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The payment made by a manufacturer to a patentee for the privilege of using the patent process, is usually termed, in commercial language, a rent; and under the same head must be ranked all extraordinary qualities of body and mind.
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I don't sit and write stand-up material; I come up with an idea onstage.
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Pilates is great.
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There is no more apartheid in South Africa than in the United States.
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The welfare of Catalonia is only possible outside of Spain.
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Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to want to rest when tired. These all are a part of people's emotional nature.
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Comedy gives you a shot of euphoria that distracts you from everything that's awful.
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I believe love to be hurtful to society, and to the individual happiness of men. I believe, in short, that love does more harm than good.
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Give a man everything he wants and at that moment everything is not everything.
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The wise man should be prepared for everything that does not lie within his control.
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I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses of the past, by some dimensionless link, also afforded me a glimpse of the future.
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No llora quien no encuentra uns fuente donde verter su llanto.
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Creation is everything you do. Make something.
