Ab-Soul (Herbert Anthony Stevens IV) Quotes
My main concern is making the connection with my listeners and making records that the whole world can sing. That's what makes me happy.
Quotes to Explore
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Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own appointment, are in direct rebellion against the kingdom of God.
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I am not a 'defender' of the September 11 attacks, but simply pointing out that if U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.
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Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.
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The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.
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The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact that all men sin does not basically affect the problem of suffering.
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We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.
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To me, it's just like, if you have talent, and you're lucky enough to find where you fit, and you work with the right people, it's not exalted at all.
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Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top.
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I'm from Georgia, and everybody gathers around food in the South.
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The girls want to see the rips on your stomach - they like that.
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When I finally decided to do the show, I only had two weeks to learn the choreography and the songs in French.
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It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100 years later.
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Many's the dead author whose body of work has been marred by overzealous publishers or family members. If this happens to me, I vow to seek out the responsible parties and haunt them to the point of death.
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I never Tweet about my daughter. Never. I just want to be respectful of her privacy. My job as a mom is to know when to open my mouth and when not to.
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You can't always measure the effects of activist work; you just have to wish and pray that the message gets through.
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To love another person is to see the face of God.
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À l'heure, si sombre encore, de la civilisation où nous sommes, le misérable s'appelle L'HOMME; il agonise sous tous les climats, et il gémit dans toutes les langues.
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I was never revolutionary. The only revolutionary in our time was Strauss!'
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There cannot be mental atrophy in any person who continues to observe, to remember what he observes, and to seek answers for his unceasing hows and whys about things.
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Relativity teaches us the connection between the different descriptions of one and the same reality.
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For me the songs on this album come from a really poetic and abstract vein. The record has a strong focus on the rhythmic and melodic parts, so in that moment I felt like the lyrics needed to be more like a poem, abstract images creating sensations beyond the “storytelling”.
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I know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in the book?' You just can't help it; it's the way people are.
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Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.
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My main concern is making the connection with my listeners and making records that the whole world can sing. That's what makes me happy.
