William Greider Quotes
Creating a positive future begins in human conversation. The simplest and most powerful investment any member of a community or an organisation can make is to begin with other people as though the answers mattered.
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Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there's a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind.
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I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.
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Sport's hard: the margin between winning and losing is tiny.
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Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.
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A lot of people will call me nuts or crazy, but I've always been pretty stable. By some people's standards, I might be crazy. But I realize that I'm not going to harm anyone, and the only place that I live is within my own universe, really - so it's O.K.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
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I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.
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All you have to do is to dream big and try to fulfil it.
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I think it's a loser's mentality to get happy with somebody losing.
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I started singing very early. I was six or seven years old, and I was singing along to TV commercials and figuring out, 'Oh, hey, I can sing in tune. This is really cool.' But the songwriting thing came much much later, when I was 19 years old.
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I don't wanna be Courtney Love - I wanna be Kurt Cobain.
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But the character was so successful, that first one, that they wrote him again and he came in right at the end of the first year in a show called THE BOX. I was up for the Emmy for that one too.
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I wish all high schools could offer students the outside activities that were available at the old Harrison High on Chicago's West Side in the late '20s. They enabled me to become part of a school newspaper, drama group, football team and student government.
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This man, though, was of that rare type that knew what he wanted but didn't want anything badly enough to demand it or beg for it or hurt anyone else in the process of getting it.
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We need a wider sense of community because we're all on the same planet.
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All rappers are princesses like me.
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I have to make this love affair believable enough. It's very European.
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Creating a positive future begins in human conversation. The simplest and most powerful investment any member of a community or an organisation can make is to begin with other people as though the answers mattered.
