Sylvia (Sylvia Robinson) Quotes
I saw this DJ playing music and saying things to the kids. They would answer him back, and I say, 'That's a great idea.'
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I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
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I've been living. I've been doing the writing thing. I've been being the family man. I've been traveling the world. I been to, like, 18 cities last year. I've been getting my thoughts together, trying to figure out what's going on with hip-hop itself.
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When I left office in 1979, I was about the only one who had really left public office on my own.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare's plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.
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While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive.
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I didn't particularly like being objectified.
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My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.
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I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you.
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Baseball's future? Bigger and bigger, better and better! No question about it, it's the greatest game there is!
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I'd like to do more TV; TV is completely different than working in movies in a lot of ways, it's like making a really compact movie. Because you don't have as much time, especially hour long shows, they move so quickly.
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I'm sure I was a great disappointment to many women because I wasn't Errol Flynn. But I'm me. I think that's got some merit.
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Actually, I'm 5-8 and change without shoes. With shoes, 5-9.
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The original settlers in Iceland were the nobles of Norway who left their native land to avoid the tyranny of Harold Fairhair, who tried to crush their power so as to make himself a despotic king in the land.
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There comes a point when you're writing a novel when you're in it so deep that the life of the novel becomes more real to you than life itself. You have to write your way out of it; once you're there, it's too late to abandon.
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I love ballet because you can see how beautiful the body is.
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We human beings do a lot of dumb things, and war is certainly the dumbest.
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The 19th century became the age of the museum. Objects were scrambled for, specimens seized, and friezes and antiques grasped.
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For my convalescence, I had to exercise my voice only with vowels. It is a medical rule after a long loss of voice.
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Chris Rock does the political thing really well, but that never worked for me.
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If I go on to the pitch, do things well and the fans love me and my team-mates, too, we take on that energy which can change a game.
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I started writing in the '90s, so I was free to just have an eccentric career and not conform to some idea of what a black writer has to do. I didn't have the burden of representation.
Colson Whitehead -
I never really thought I was going to be a singer, honestly. I never listened to singers; I always listened to rap music.
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Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.
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I saw this DJ playing music and saying things to the kids. They would answer him back, and I say, 'That's a great idea.'
