Cassandra Wilson Quotes
There was a train that would come by our house every night, and I'd hear the whistle blow. That is the sweetest memory I have.
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you'll be doing when you've reached your goal.
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I don't really shop any more. I only do it when I have to. I think it is very overrated.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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I have a fascination with Flight 93. My emotions are mixed: awe, gratitude, fear, heartache, pride - even, in some ways, guilt.
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The longer people watch Netflix and the longer they stay members - they're the criteria of success for us.
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I love dive bars, old movie theaters, live music and good food. The simplest things in life for me are the most important.
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If someone busted into your house and robbed you, would you then forgive them if you found out they were a veteran? Of course not. So why are we forgiving McCain for selling out his country by supporting the Bush agenda?
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The biggest competition is myself. I am not looking to follow others or pull them down. I'm planning to test my own boundaries.
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You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.
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They're trying to tell us that we're not right, so we have to buy their products. The number one cause of mental illness is not knowing who you are and you can't know who you are if you don't spend time honoring yourself, and living in the present.
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Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
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The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands.
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The roar of the crowd has always been the sweetest music. It's intoxicating.
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We want a system that will improve consistency and steadiness in the quality of government.
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For me, hour-long drama was always the thing I felt the most comfortable doing, and I've played so many dramatic roles in the theater.
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I love the art world, I love art galleries, I love what it means - I love art.
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The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.
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I take statements that portray untrue statements about me seriously.
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Counting is the most simple and primitive of narratives - 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 - a tale with a beginning, a middle and an end and a sense of progression - arriving at a finish of two digits - a goal attained, a dénouement reached.
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I do not expect the Union to be dissolved - I do not expect the house to fall - but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.
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My house has changed a little in the sun. The fragrance of the magnolias come close, False flick, false form, but falseness close to kin.
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All work is a process of failure. Every single thing I write, I look at it and go, 'Do better. That's not good enough. Do better.' And so, that keeps me up at night.
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There was a train that would come by our house every night, and I'd hear the whistle blow. That is the sweetest memory I have.
