Andrew Hill Quotes
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I think my message goes out to the entire spectrum of political parties. I'm supported by the Tea Party, the Conservative Party and the Republican Party. I come from a Democratic world. My world is moderate Democrats, Reagan-type Democrats if you want, the blues or whatever you call them, the Blue Dogs. That's been my world, historically.
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I was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape.
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I always knew I would act. It was just a matter of time.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of federal comeuppance. Sometimes there's a reason for that - the Civil War. More often, all reasoning seems absent - No Child Left Behind.
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I don't want to become known as just a body.
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For a border state, I would argue that Texas is less lunatic on the subject of immigration issues than other places around it, like Arizona. They're much more comfortable with their long-term identity as a place with a very large Hispanic population.
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One of the biggest things that happens to many people when they have kids is that you suddenly realize that you're not going to last forever. You know there is another generation who are the heroes of their own stories, and that is humbling.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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What I don't like to hear in music is something has not been thought through: that a sound is just there randomly. I want to make sure that every single little noise that's in my song is there because it's supposed to be there.
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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body - it is heritage.
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A lot of my male vocal influences are British - people like David Bowie, Freddie Mercury and Robert Plant.
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Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
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In this broad earth of ours,Amid the measureless grossness and the slag,Enclosed and safe within its central heart,Nestles the seed perfection.
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The older you get, the more you believe in God, whatever face he wears.
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If it were up to me, every job would be somewhere in Canada.
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I was like the family clown. The middle child entertaining. I was a lousy student, but interestingly, the nuns always let me write plays or do drawings, endless special projects.
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We don't really understand most of what's happening in the cosmos. Is there any afterlife? Who knows.
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Knowledge is sacred and the choice to be informed or merely entertained in today's world is a very revealing test of the times. Expanding your mind to penetrate the deeper meanings of life is not only liberating, it is crucial to your well-being, for knowledge is power, and how you use your power inevitably determines the course of your personal and collective life.
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Humans will never be hampered as smooth bag. They just dragged and dropped upon his head and empty heart.
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If you do too much it's going to lose its effectiveness.
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A great leader cannot worry about being well liked.
