Woody Guthrie (Woodrow Wilson Guthrie) Quotes
It's a folk singer's job to comfort disturbed people and to disturb comfortable people
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We continue to be bullish on China.
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All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.
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The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.
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I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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I truly believe that you have to bring more content to the table to survive in radio than saying, 'There was AC/DC, and here's Journey,' because computers can do that.
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Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
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A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.
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The idea of doing a production of 'Carousel' that doesn't feel like it's stuck in the 1950s really intrigues me.
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We have an idea that the man should help pay for the child. But we don't have a law that says a man has to support any woman he gets pregnant. Why is that? Because she doesn't have the baby yet. But if we're going to say it's a human being, then he should be supporting her during pregnancy.
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When Van Halen started out, there was no path to fame. We just played what we liked. Even today it always comes down to the simplicity of rock and roll.
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If you have a reputation as a big, stiff bureaucracy, you're stuck.
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That's a real problem when people bring exotics into their homes. Sometimes it's by accident, but sometimes it's on purpose.
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I believe in peace-building in any kind of platform, be it a political platform like Parliament or negotiations like peace-building negotiations.
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It's very liberating to cut your hair.
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If a top management team cannot clearly articulate the five or six fundamental industry trends that most threaten its firm's continued success, it is not in control of the firm's destiny.
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When life gives you lemons make melons.
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Fun without sell gets nowhere, but sell without fun tends to become obnoxious.
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Traditions insist upon themselves. Look around, and you will see them trying to exist everywhere, in everyone's life.
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I'm at a point where I don't have to wait for the income from the record to survive, so I'm in a comfortable zone, but I'll make rap records as long as I feel I have something to rap about.
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The more you head into the maelstrom, the more vulnerable you are, of course. But it's what you owe to whatever gift you have.
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I did a film a long time ago with a shaved head and I had the ugliest looking head in the world.
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When we think about Islamic feminism, it is not just about women's rights. It's about a more progressive and tolerant expression of Islam in the world for all people. Women's rights is one aspect of it, it's not the end-all, but I also think that the women's issue is the strongest entry point that we've got to challenging extremism. You raise a woman's issue and you get the backs of the conservatives up against the wall faster than just about any other issue in our community. It's the fastest path that we've got to making change happen.
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It's a folk singer's job to comfort disturbed people and to disturb comfortable people
