Alice Coltrane Quotes
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I don't know what's with me and the 'of God' shows. It's hard to tweet about, because I guess 'God' triggers some kind of filter.
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From the ashes of a financial crash, there is a chance to create a new economic settlement that is more equal, sustainable and democratic.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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I feel like I just have such the blood and bones of a New Yorker that I can almost imagine better, like, giving up the fight and not being able to afford the city and going out West, keeping a small place here, and then when I'm like 80, coming back here, living on the park and going to the theater.
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I always consider Shakespeare like a huge room. I mean, you open the door, and you can go anywhere.
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When you have that long, flowing hair, you feel different - when you cut it, the framing of your face changes immediately.
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I think the way to understand Teach for America is as a leadership development program.
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I'm a typical Irishman in that I only get home for weddings and funerals.
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The marketplace tells us that good, visceral storytelling has a place. But there are lots of questions about the format that stories take.
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I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.
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Women are called upon to defend every bit of progress we have made against particularly virulent attack. But we must also hold out a vision, put forth a positive agenda of what women need and want and then move forward toward that dream.
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I've always felt that the traditional novel doesn't give you enough information about the narrator, and I think it's important to know the point of view from which these tales are told: the moral makeup of the teller.
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Social Security is fundamentally strong.
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I wasn't known as a neighborhood tough or anything like that. But yeah, I was, like, a scrappy kid. You know, I kind of kept to myself, you know?
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If a film project were available and the timing was right, I might be interested.
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We are, at almost every point of our day, immersed in cultural diversity: faces, clothes, smells, attitudes, values, traditions, behaviours, beliefs, rituals.
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I'd love to do a sci-fi movie, a western, or an espionage thriller. But I'm not going to limit myself. If a good script comes along, I'm not going to discount it because it doesn't fit into one of these genres.
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Vietnam was the first time that Americans of different races had to depend on each other. In the Second World War, they were segregated; it was in Vietnam that American integration happened in the military - and it wasn't easy.
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I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.
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I'm a late bloomer, so I'm going to embrace it all.
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It really surprises me that people in this day and age still write such busy music and fill up every space with layer upon layer of sound... it's like musical landfill.
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Everything has become very corporate and very careful. Before we had a real democracy going and there were a lot of freedoms and now there's this terrorism thing that everybody's focused on, which is really a boondoggle in my opinion. It's just an excuse to clamp down on people's free speech. And corporations intimidate people and everybody's gotten intimidated and that's really what it is, and they just keep going along. It's almost like - a little bit like that Charlie Chaplin movie, Modern Times, or 1984, Orwell
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It is precisely the way which is productive - this is the essential thing; becoming is more important than being.
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You have got to stress the freedom of music to really branch out and be universal.
