Cornplanter Quotes
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I don't know if I'm selfless - I still want to make a great record. I want to make a hit record. I want to tour; that's not completely selfless. But the truth is I'm not interested in people coming to my show for me as much as I am for them coming to my show for themselves. That's always been how I am.
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You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people the knowledge, the skills and the technology that they need in order to be able to use the resources that Africa has to gain wealth.
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People tend to think that numbers are quite objective, but numbers in economics are not like this. Some economists say they're like sausages: you don't know what they really are until you cut into them.
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I like to take pictures of lots of things: people-such as my nephews, my dogs, and just interesting objects that I see. For instance, I might take a picture of flowers by the side of the road, an old sign or a fence.
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People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.
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I've always felt that if you've been blessed, you should try to help as many people as you can. I just think that's the right thing to do.
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I motivate what I see in young people because we employ about forty thousand young people in our various Chick-fil-A units. Some of them come to work because they need to work; others just work because they just like to work. There's nothing wrong with that.
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It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.
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Look, I'm a cancer survivor, all right? So I have great personal empathy for people who have pre-existing conditions and can't get insurance.
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To write a love song that might be able to make it on the radio, that is something that is terrifying to me. But I can definitely write a song about that chair over there. That I can do, but to sit and write a pop song out of the clear blue sky, that is very difficult and I admire the people that can do it.
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Intellectuals are people who manage the world in their head. They look at life and try to see some kind of truth, and if they cannot find it, they attempt to create it.
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In some ways, Trump's large, national coalition defies easy characterization. He draws from a broad base of good people: kind folks who open their homes and hearts to people of all colors and creeds, married couples with happy homes and families who live nearby, public servants who put their lives on the line to fight fires in their communities.
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People don't want to give up their SUVs. They don't want to turn the thermostat down in the winter and up in the summer.
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The fact is that at different stages of your life, and under the influence of different inspirations, you write different things. The point is not necessarily to find your voice, which grinds out the same sort of thing again and again, but to find a vehicle for people who are far more important than the author: the characters.
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People think I'm more wild than I am... I like going to theme parks, play sports or just hanging out with my friends.
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I just believe in the goodwill of people, the power of people to do something positive.
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I don't really want to have any part of getting guilty people off.
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Rap is from the streets and I'm from the streets. That's why a lot of people accept me.
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A professorship appeals very much because I enjoy being with younger people.
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When you’re a charmer people respond they can’t see the hidden agenda you got going on
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There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of staying alive.
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It was really intense for me to start having conversations with God, when according to the man-made laws in my religion - to be homosexual is evil.
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It is my wish and the wishes of my people to live peaceably and quietly with you.
