Harold Washington Quotes
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If Bill jumps into something that relies on a lot of cymbals, I'll jump into something that relies on a lot of skin sounds; if he goes into metal tones, I'll go into wood, and so on. I basically play in his holes.
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I look like this for a reason. I was born this way. It was God-given.
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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If large numbers of people believe they have no shot at a better life in the future, they will work less hard and generate fewer new ideas and businesses. The economy, as a whole, will be poorer.
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During the late '20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted.
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I love to push myself.
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I hated school. I travelled so much in my early years that I didn't understand the process. I felt suffocated - not like I was some grandiose artist; I just felt like an alien.
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This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking, How does he see me? I became enlightened.
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Love is more than one thing.
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They want to let the audience figure things out and let the reaction shot get the laugh.
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When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.
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The first two or three movies I did, I'd be around famous co-stars and totally pretend like I didn't care, but inside, I was shaking. I've been weaning myself off that.
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In America, to be ID'd - sorted, tagged, and permanently filed - is to lose a bit of one's soul. To die a little. This sounds like a subtle, poetic notion. It's not. In American legal and cultural tradition, one essential privilege of citizenship is not having to prove it on demand.
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There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
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Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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What a publication can do is to help people get a clearer picture without jumping to any rash conclusion. I'm very happy that the 'Post' can take the responsibility to report on China in a broader and deeper way. I believe the 'Post' must be fair to our readers. We should let our readers see China from more angles and perspectives.
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Write for yourself. That's it. And write every day.
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I love this profession, but God, it can just destroy people, and I don't want that to happen and become some monster.
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When I looked at the skeleton of 'Damn Yankees,' I saw an indestructible story, absolutely original characters, one of the freshest, sassiest American scores of the century, and some outmoded equipment.
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Doo-wop is the true music to me, man. Doo-wop was what nurtured me and grew me into who I am, and I guess even when I was in school, the teacher probably thought I had ADD or something every day, because I'd be beating on the desks, singing like the Flamingos or the Spaniels or Clyde McPhatter or somebody.
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I am not someone who sacrifice all for the cinema, my life will be always more important.
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The scale of time for a politician runs between one primary and the next, and in Israel, this means two to three years because elections almost never take place once every four years as stipulated by law. The timetable for a system of research is completely different.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
