Sxip Shirey (Gene "Sxip" Shirey) Quotes
Art is borne out of necessity. Music is a tool and men are doers. When a relationship is working, you don't need to write a song-you need to get toilet paper.
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Everybody's had their differences with President Trump. He's a polarizing president, but I think a majority of the people like what he's doing.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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The economy is not immutable; it's not about natural laws. It's about rules, and we make the rules.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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Every change in a team can turn into an opportunity for players to show themselves.
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I always had a very strong sense of independence. I really liked being able to buy my Alanis Morissette 'Jagged Little Pill' album. I wore that as a badge of honor. I love not having to rely on anyone.
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I've done a lot of Super Bowls and appeared in a lot of big, big events and places and the Masters and what have you, but there was nothing as intimidating as speaking with Billy Graham.
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Although I come from a family who are Muslim - my mother is Egyptian, my father is Palestinian - my mother only puts a veil on her head when she has a bad hair day.
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I think, though, that people will read into a reporter's story a bias that they want to see in a reporter.
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I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.
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I don't mean to be funny.
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The reason why books endure is because there are enough people who like them. It's the only reason why books last.
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You need someone to tell you how to do things like hitting your marks, or driving a car so it looks right or getting out of a car so it doesn't take a million years of screen time.
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I'm not a depressive, but I certainly have mood swings. It's an occupational hazard, I would say, and I'm glad I'm in the occupation I'm in.
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They are scared that the BBC or CNN may call them radicals, so they remain soft instead. The problem lies there, with the Muslim leaders, not the Muslim masses.
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I feel like being an artist and being an activist are separate things; I know some people who feel very differently.
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What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?
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I maintain music is not here to make us forget about life. It's also here to teach us about life: the fact that everything starts and ends, the fact that every sound is in danger of disappearing, the fact that everything is connected - the fact that we live and we die.
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First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.
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I was into all of the Pennsylvania teams at some point in my childhood. I would flip back and forth between the Pirates and the Phillies, and I was always a Steelers fan but not much of an Eagles fan. Then I became kind of a band nerd in school, and I went the music route.
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Not all women write the same. But I don't understand why the model is that you're supposed to write like a man, and that means you're a real writer.
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Art is borne out of necessity. Music is a tool and men are doers. When a relationship is working, you don't need to write a song-you need to get toilet paper.
