Nell Irvin Painter Quotes
The American sense of the importance, the fundamental importance of the black-white dichotomy, comes out of societies founded in the era of the African slave trade, so societies like ours, that is to say the western hemisphere, the Caribbean and so forth, we share a lot in common.
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I would like to see more Bollywood films! The more stylized musicals are a new trend in the U.S. We are beginning to make musicals again after a long break, practically since the days of the studio structure, so perhaps we can learn a few things from Bollywood about this fun style of film-making.
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I'm a Christian guy, and when it comes to my priorities, it's the utmost. For me, just to calm myself down, to keep my perspective when I'm playing, to not make too big a deal of it... that's where I go to. The peace that comes with that allows me to play free golf.
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There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
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When I go out, I love steak and caviar.
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I moved back to Tennessee in '86 or '87. That's when I worked with the Carter Family because I really wanted to understand my roots.
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Seattle is a fantastic place to build a great technology-enabled consumer company.
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Lithium makes a fine battery because it's a scarily reactive metal. Pure lithium ignites on contact if it touches water - a flake of it would sizzle and fry on the water-rich cells of your skin.
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Je reculeÉbloui de me voir moi même tout vermeilEt d’avoir, moi, le coq, fait élever le soleil.
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I do get massively distracted when I've got someone in my life, which I can't afford to do right now...besides, no one treats me as well as I do.
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The simplest answer is to act.
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In the arts they call it plagiarism, in business they call it competition.
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There are so many ways to be and to be black at the same time, but we're finally seeing that full range expressed much more widely than before.
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The wise healer endures the pain. Cry. Tears bring joy.
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A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration.
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I'm not saying I'd already done anything, actually, but I'd passed my experimental streak.
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Metaphor is halfway between the unintelligible and the common place.
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I think the form, the Hollywood movie, I think the quality is obviously always going to be there and I think that the question of taste, there's always a question of taste.
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The value of teaching without words and accomplishing without action is understood by few in the world.
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Souls will never ascend to Heaven until the sight of beauty lifts them there.
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The American sense of the importance, the fundamental importance of the black-white dichotomy, comes out of societies founded in the era of the African slave trade, so societies like ours, that is to say the western hemisphere, the Caribbean and so forth, we share a lot in common.
