Eddie Harris Quotes
No one remembers you for standing in the crowd . But they do remember you for standing out of it.
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I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up.
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I love standing on the pitch too much to focus on anything else - if I want to be a coach or something.
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When someone is looking at me, I feel they are looking at someone standing behind me, not at me.
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The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation.
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There's a lot of whiners in every crowd.
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When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love.
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I think from an artist standpoint, you have to put out music that you feel like represents you and things you feel like your crowd wants to hear. And if that drives them to go and download the album or the single, that's what we want.
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I think it had to do with the people because some of our guys aren't used to this. It had to do with the crowd. When we got in a huddle, we had to settle down and realize it was just us and them.
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A man is capable of thought. A crowd is not.
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...we both saw something we liked, a willingness to have no walls, or maybe just an unwillingness to keep them standing.
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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
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The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.
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History is a great teacher. Now everyone knows that the labor movement did not diminish the strength of the nation but enlarged it. By raising the living standards of millions, labor miraculously created a market for industry and lifted the whole nation to undreamed of levels of production. Those who attack labor forget these simple truths, but history remembers them.
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The heart of standing is that you cannot fly.
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Stephen Blackpool fall into the loneliest of lives, the life of solitude among a familiar crowd. The stranger in the land who looks into ten thousand faces for some answering look and never finds it, is in cheering society as compared with him who passes ten averted faces daily, that were once the countenances of friends.
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It's a terrible thing to be lonesome, especially in the middle of a crowd.
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You stick your head above the crowd and attract attention and sometimes somebody will throw a rock at you. That's the territory. You buy the land, you get the Indians.
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Stick your head above the crowd and eventually somebody will throw a rock at it.
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Playing to bigger audiences at festivals got me in the mindset of writing music that I would sing to a crowd.
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We know ourselves as part and as crowd, in an unknown that does not terrify. We cry our cry of poetry. Our boats are open, and we sail them for everyone.
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The more facts I can have, the better. I can operate very nicely between them, but I am not very good at making things up. I am not sure how ethical it is.
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Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space. I know of no sculpture, painting or music that exceeds the compelling spiritual command of the soaring shape of granite cliff and dome, of patina of light on rock and forest, and of the thunder and whispering of the falling, flowing waters. At first the colossal aspect may dominate; then we perceive and respond to the delicate and persuasive complex of nature.
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No one remembers you for standing in the crowd . But they do remember you for standing out of it.
