Northrop Frye Quotes
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I'm the 1st black platinum artist in Detroit, solo artist in Detroit.
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Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.
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I think initially, the record industry struggled a lot with digital media because there are a lot of aspects to it that can potentially destroy our industry.
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The Mavericks and I have mutually agreed that it's in the best interest of both parties for me to step away from the team.
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I think the only safe medium are books, because people like to hold books in their hand.
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The point of the future is that anything can happen.
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It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than with most software.
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When I got to college, I was intending to study film. But I found that my brain was feeling mushy, so I took a few math classes. I started doing really well at them, and solving equations was this, like, drug rush.
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When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.
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Individuals can stand up against genocide in Darfur and Iran's quest for nuclear weapons.
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The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.
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Once you really understand your role... that's why I think actors get lost in a series. Everybody wants to be the quarterback or the game-winning wide receiver. I've been around long enough and done enough stuff to where I don't feel that way. I just want to do what I do as well as possible.
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I support capital punishment. But let's be clear: It's a decision for each state to make.
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Whatever you want to call it, they have all these names for these coverages, I've seen them. Like those linemen coming out to jam me on the line of scrimmage. A lot of crazy stuff.
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The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.
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Pa did not like a country so old and worn out that the hunting was poor. He wanted to go west. For two years he had wanted to go west and take a homestead, but Ma did not want to leave the settled country.
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When I don't know what to wear, I wear black lace.
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I've written a song for Prince. I never showed it to Prince, but just to see if I could do it. At the time, when I sort of knew him, he was recording a song a day. I wondered if I could do that. So I wrote it.
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Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.
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All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
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People who sit back and wait for somebody to take care of them are the people that if shown a way, can be useful to our society.
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It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video.
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There is only one way to degrade mankind permanently and that is to destroy language.
