Mose Allison Quotes
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.
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I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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I wanted to get a cropped hairdo, but Sreenu Vaitla loves my look in 'Chiruta,' so he suggested that I keep the long hair.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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I think it's very important to have a public discussion about why we're denying our soldiers the ability to exercise their Second Amendment rights.
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No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.
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Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.
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The more desperate you are, the more mistakes you make.
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I think it's important to travel around in order to get a notion of what's going on, to find out what people are think about. I enjoy talking on campuses most because people are more informed and discussion is generally livelier.
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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
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I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and try to see why they're doing what they're doing, taking a dig at them ceases to be what you want to do even if you hate them.
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If a woman is super-successful, she is called a psychopath.
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Did people think I sounded black? Totally, but that was a marketing tool as well, but also this is how I grew up and these are my influences.
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Assad owes his continuation in power to the intervention of Russia in 2015 to prop up his regime.
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Ohioans are practical. We're a can-do people. Give us a problem, we'll give you a solution.
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People ask me if I ever thought of writing a children's book. I say, 'If I had a serious brain injury I might well write a children's book', but otherwise the idea of being conscious of who you're directing the story to is anathema to me, because, in my view, fiction is freedom and any restraints on that are intolerable.
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It's often women who are writing leading roles for women. Most of the stuff that comes my way is not actually about women. I'm just asked to be a supporting player in a story about a man, and I, frankly, was not interested in doing that.
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The books I'm writing are houses that I build for myself.
Etel Adnan -
We understand America’s concerns about terrorism...We have no objection to agreements that protect your security interests. We only ask that you respect international standards on human rights and the Yemeni people’s rights to freedom and justice.
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I never sit down and write. I just sorta let things form in my brain.
