Dusty Hill Quotes
"For our legacy, I hope people would listen to the body of the work and not just one segment. Most people have their favorites or don't like us at all, and any of that's cool."
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
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The FHA literally drew up the redlining map and then basically distributed - I'm sorry, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation actually did it, and then distributed to banks who used that as policy to determine how they would lend and who they would lend to. The racism in the system was pervasive and total.
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I love 'Trading Places,' but 'Coming to America' has one of the things I like to do - I like the multiple characters.
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I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
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We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
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An unlimited America was the vision for the nation set forth by our Founding Fathers. It is the vision enshrined in those two great charters of freedom: our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution. Many of America's most intractable problems stem from the fact that we have strayed from that vision - and lost direction.
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A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.
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If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
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I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.
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The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.
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My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'
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Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'
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Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
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There are so many stories from the Midwest that should be told. L.A. tells one story, and it's often about itself.
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I've enjoyed all the work I've done, and I feel quite lucky that I haven't been playing sweet girls all the time.
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Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.
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In sub-Saharan Africa, fewer than 1 in 5 girls make it to secondary school.
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One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'.
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In Britain ever more, they will realize that Brexit, well, has consequences - economic, commercial, partnerships. Perhaps during the referendum the impression was given that once the Brexit button was pushed everything would take care of itself easily. Well, that is not true.
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Mixing humour and harsh reality is a very human behaviour, it's the way people stay sane in their daily lives.
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I don't say that the drunk man is the real man, and the sober man merely a shell. But you find out something different about people when they're drunk. Of course, you sometimes find that they're not different at all--that you merely get more of the same, perhaps said rather more loudly and incoherently, but basically the same.
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Your financial success is directly related to the size of the problem you solve for other people (solve BIG problems and you'll make BIG money).
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"For our legacy, I hope people would listen to the body of the work and not just one segment. Most people have their favorites or don't like us at all, and any of that's cool."
