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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An artist has to look at the future, to see what we can do better.
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For Lebanon to have any future, gotta adopt a resolute policy v/s terrorism. Whoever plots against the land should bear the consequences.
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I worked in a number of high schools in New York, and I wound up at Stuyvesant High School, which is known nationally for producing brilliant scientists and mathematicians, but I had writing classes. I thought I was teaching. They thought I was teaching, but I was learning.
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No book includes the entire world. It's limited. And so it doesn't seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that. There's so much other material to write about.
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I don't want to do something unless it feels organic.
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I never sit down and write. I just sorta let things form in my brain.
