Ammon Hennacy Quotes
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If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.
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I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.
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I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.
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Protesters should make their own media and not rely on mainstream media to cover them.
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You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
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It's interesting, the things you learn when you're 21. I learned never to get tattoos in the middle of shooting a movie. Because if you're not Angelina Jolie or Megan Fox, they will fire you.
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Obviously, local elections are where you can make the most difference, but it's great when everyone starts talking about what they believe in.
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Most of my relationships have been like that - with record companies. I've never had a legitimate business relationship with a company. I've always had a personal relationship with someone in the company.
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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.
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If you want to play the good roles, spend more time in in college and in acting class than you do in the gym, and you'll have the career you want.
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Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.
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Looks, health and elegance are what counts. Someone can look wonderful in a sweatsuit.
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I have no television - I hate it.
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You learn from things that don't go well, and you try to capitalize when they do. You build on those strengths and try to make your weaknesses stronger.
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Kids deserve arts, and it's just as important as science, math, history, English or athletics.
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Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
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To the more judicial and scientific temper of our day their invective would seem overdrawn and their sympathy would seem partisanship. In Jeremiah and in the prophetic psalms the poor as a class are made identical with the meek and godly, and 'rich' and 'wicked' are almost synonymous terms.
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Use some reverence. Remember what he was only a minute ago. You wouldn't have dared laid a hand on him.
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Surround yourself with positive people and you'll be a positive person.
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Since so much of the poetry machine is consumed in and with the mirroring and the reproduction of what is already preexistent, I don't understand why such paranoiac conservatism is dedicated to labels. It's a way of controlling the "other," to label them.
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Are things getting better with each generation? Yes. It's quite interesting to be living in these times, for me to witness an African-American being elected president. It's quite extraordinary.
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I believe our concept of romantic love is irrational, impossible to fulfill and the cause of many broken homes. No human being can maintain that rarefied atmosphere of 'true love'.
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We may be more sophisticated in how we hide it, but there are still so many phobias in this world, whether it's Islamophobia, xenophobia or homophobia. I've been trying to do things that expose and help teach and draw attention to all of the 'isms' and how we do or don't deal with them in our world.
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“I'm not trying to change the world. I'm trying to stop the world from changing me.”
