Langston Hughes Quotes
I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
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I think women are really self-analytical in a way that men aren't.
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Nothing is certain in life but death and taxes. And in Donald Trump's case, lies.
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Orchestra had a little brass ensemble on two tracks as well, but the rest was me. I knew I couldn't continue in this direction, even if people liked it, because I can only duplicate myself.
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Sometimes I like to watch TV, though I never get to watch any of the shows in real time. I'm a fan of 'Downton Abbey,' 'Boardwalk Empire,' and 'Boss.' There's a British series called 'Luther,' but in England, they think a series means four episodes. And I like 'Mad Men.' Otherwise, it's always good to unwind with a book.
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The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy.
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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You can only be free as an artist if you're free as a person.
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Cryptocurrencies in general give us a stable medium through which we can communicate our information about values and prices in a way that no government mandarin can distort or usurp. For the predators who have used our central institutions to predate on the rest of humanity, it's a very bad development.
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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
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I'm not a good guitar player.
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Most Americans probably have no idea how hostile anti-abortion sidewalk counseling outside clinics can be. There's a reason pro-choicers volunteer to escort patients as they make their way past angry crowds to the clinic door.
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I only use my sick days for hang-overs and soap opera weddings.
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There's an energy in an urban core that you just don't get anywhere else.
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All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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The European Union will never see America, or an American president, as a risk.
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I think a lot about when times were simpler, when I was still dancing and living with my parents. I really miss living at home sometimes. I get really sad.
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I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?
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Wolf - tis what he is. He's not blackhearted like some men. 'Tis no heart he has at all. Wolf. just Wolf, tis what he is. D'ye wonder he's well named?
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Socialism is... not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems.
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Facebook is one way to be able to communicate in a quick way. I never hired a firm to send out pictures and such so I am lame that way. All I can say is how grateful I am for the fans I have.
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I think my journalism is for readers who are smart and know that most people are lying to them, or being patronizing...
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My eyes, my brain seek out escape routes wherever I am sent.
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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
