Blaize Clement Quotes
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You know Nashville, there's people that are ten times more talented than me, ten times better singer than me, song writer than me, but for some reason you get the ball and now - and now you run with it. And you do the best you can.
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Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do in order to live, we have to solve the communication problem. Language is the tool that was invented to solve that problem.
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I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction.
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I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.
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A new idea - whether it's a way to collect solar energy more efficiently or a cheaper way to desalinate sea water or a new seed to boost the amount of food we can grow - can stretch the physical resources we have, or even multiply them. And the ideas themselves don't ever wear out.
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As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
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Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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We're in the same ghettos, same inner cities, and we're suffering from the same problems. Every problem the blacks have, the Latinos have.
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There is no way Israel will deal with the Palestinians if the Palestinians do not understand the suffering of the Jewish people.
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Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.
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Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross and the Jackson 5, that's what I grew up on.
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The troops aren't red and blue. They're not black and white. They're not male and female. They are Americans! When they put their uniforms on, they are Americans. And that's a fact.
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I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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I sometimes ask people, 'Can you be aware of your own presence? Not the thoughts that you're having, not the emotions that you're having, but the very presence of your very being?' You become aware of your own presence by sensing the entire energy field in your body that is alive. And that is the totality of your presence.
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My interviewing style and my approach to things is that, yes, it's okay to be sincere; it's okay to be yourself; it's okay to be real.
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Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.
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Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing.
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I love the stage, I love the process of acting in theatre, but unfortunately, it doesn't pay the bills.
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Does being a feminist mean that I believe that I'm as good as any man? Yes.
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Every time you do a big sword fight surrounded by a couple of hundred extras, it's a fun day at work.
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I'm a hundred-and-one years old and at my age, honey, I can say what I want!
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Being young is easy, you know, but it takes guts to be old.
