Cedric Bixler-Zavala Quotes
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Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for shamans and tribal leaders was the mnemonic.
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It's all about sound. It's that simple. Wireless is wireless, and it's digital. Hopefully somewhere along the line somebody will add more ones to the zeros. When digital first started, I swear I could hear the gap between the ones and the zeros.
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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
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Shoes are important to me because I don't do much with my clothes.
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I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.
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Sometimes I think that there's a fine line between impressionistic and messy.
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I think if I could have a boyfriend like my brothers I'd be really happy. But without the brother thing.
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If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother.
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I had been out there long enough. I had not seen my family for four years.
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I never complain. I chose the road of fighting with the Ukrainian oligarchy in 1996, and have paid for this with my freedom and that of my husband, my father and my close friends.
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Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.
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I grew up in Dallas, with cowboys. I was the only guy in sixth grade with long hair and an earring. Let's just say I got a lot of, er, flak for being different.
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Being able to act for a living is a blessing. I have a great theater company that's almost 40 years old.
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I think that my first poetic impulse is for music; second a definite conception with the ring of the universe...
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Why are ... female characters in combat roles wearing high-heels? With all the fighting, running and climbing these women have to do, dressing them in high-heels is clearly a decision rooted in sexualized aesthetic pleasure rather than believability.
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I actually thought, like, I was sure 'Get Smart' and, like, 'James Bond' movies, I was sure that that's what real life was like.
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Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it. So if, from perhaps some unhealthy desire for sympathetic support, you describe your life in negative terms you will find that this will reinforce your mind's negative emotions and make you unhappy and even more susceptible to feeling unhappy in the future. By simply doing the reverse and focusing on why you are lucky and grateful things are not worse, you will strengthen and increase your mind's positive emotions and make yourself happy and even more likely to feel happy in the future.
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I complained to my mother about wanting to look less like myself and more like my friends. My mother then gave me a lesson in embracing my differences and loving them despite what others said.
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I'm afraid that if I raced you on the street I'd push you to your death.
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What I find really interesting is to try and mix it up, to push myself and try different things. I don't want to stay in my comfort zone. I want to take risks and keep myself scared.
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It often seems easier not to move on; even the muck and mire in which we're stuck seems less fearful and less challenging than the unknown path ahead. Some people use faith as a reason to remain stuck. They often say, "I have faith, so I'm waiting." But faith is not complacent; faith is action. You don't have faith and wait. When you have faith, you move. Complacency actually shows lack of faith. When it's time to move in a new direction in order to progress, the right people will come to us.
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Yeah, I'd definitely push for more of that.
