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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Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, when the critic is inferior to the writer.
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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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And that had a powerful appeal, particularly to those who had been denied the choice to stay on at school, to go to university, to be something else, other than going down the pit.
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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 was listening to Jimi Hendrix; I just admire his artistry and creativity as an artist.
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Anybody who knows about capitalism knows that bankruptcy is an essential part of capitalism.
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'LazyTown' is basically about motivation. So what do I call motivation? I call it 'go.' The show is going to inspire kids to go. Go fishing. Go dancing. Go live.
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I think people inspire me the most. If I meet a person who is incredibly complex, and all of a sudden, I start thinking in rhymes, that person could be a muse.
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A true revolution of values will see that the western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just.
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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.
