Anthony Anaxagorou Quotes
A book can teach you, a conversation can assure you, a poem can seduce you, a genius can inspire you but only you can save yourself.
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People have these incredible expectations. So instead of being inspired by, say, Joni Mitchell's music, I look at it and say to myself, 'I'm going to quit - why would I think of writing or performing after listening to that?'
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As a boy, I wanted to be the Peruvian Diego Maradona. Sadly, Peru hasn't made the World Cup since 1982, so I guess I did well to choose something different.
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I was in law school at the University of Kentucky and realized I didn't really like law school, so I took a creative writing course for something different.
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The imperial province should have a university, the prefectures should have colleges, and the counties should have day schools.
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I just feed off the energy of the audience.
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Job's forthright indictment of the injustice of this world is surely right. The ways of the world are weird and much more unpredictable than either scientists or theologians generally make things look.
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I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!
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I hate wearing makeup because I am just too lazy to take it off at night.
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I have always loved fashion since I was a kid and customized my school uniforms.
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My perspective comes in part from being a New York black lady, in part from being an engineer. I know I'm smart and have opinions worth being heard.
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Performance art is going to be the future. Plays on Broadway are so restricted. But performance art is like haikus, just one line thing. And it's more casual but more interesting.
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I used to go to Cold Stone Creamery, get a tub of Butterfinger ice cream, and eat it all before bedtime. And my fingers were permanently stained orange from Cheetos.
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I'm not a kid anymore. And I'm excited for all the amazing things to come.
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You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.
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I hasten to say to snobs from the Surrey pine-and-sand country that no invention since the corn plaster or the electric toothbrush has brought greater balm to the extremities of the senior golfer than the golfmobile, a word that will have to do for want of a better.
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Sometimes we praise the way things used to be in order to blame the present, and we esteem what is no longer in order to scorn what is.
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Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, which are repeated without end.
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I cannot believe that my illness is natural. I suspect Satan, and therefore I am the more inclined to take it lightly.
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A lot of people know that I danced, but I also sang.
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No one of us can survive in the world of today, much less what it will become, without personal inspiration.
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Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?
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A book can teach you, a conversation can assure you, a poem can seduce you, a genius can inspire you but only you can save yourself.
