Wadada Leo Smith Quotes

Seeing the bigger picture opens your eyes to what is the truth.

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• I find being funny very hard work. I am always asked about it, and I feel guilty saying that, but it's the truth. I love my work, but it ain't easy.

  

  Madeline Kahn
  • Work
  • Truth
  • Funny

• If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Life
  • Healthy
  • Choose

• Everything begins with an idea.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Idea
  • Everything
  • Begins

• I love and adore being a mother. It's the greatest gift I've ever been given.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Love
  • Mother
  • Gift

• Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Poetry
  • Synthesis
  • Biscuits

• My father went to work every day, and it's my job to go to work, too. Some days will be good, some won't be so good, but I have to go to work.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Good
  • Work
  • Job

• The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.

  

  Manning Marable
  • Political
  • Black
  • Politics

• We tend to pay attention to that which is the most current on our radar screen.

  

  Warren Rudman
  • Attention
  • Pay Attention

• I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for what I pray to God will be forever.

  

  Jack Carroll
  • God
  • Forever
  • Bus

• I never quite toed the line. I was a bit disruptive. All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.' And now, that's what I do for a living.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • School
  • Age
  • Learn

• A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Important
  • Poetry
  • Modern

• It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Poetry
  • Very
  • I Can

• People say you should go out at the top but I was enjoying my football so much. Robbie Fowler's exactly the same: he's not playing for money any more, he's playing for enjoyment. Why go out at the top if it's going to make you miserable? I just wanted to play as long as I could.

  

  Ian Rush
  • People
  • Long
  • Money

• I think we live in a culture where it is really difficult to get privacy because everything is so accessible. It's very difficult to maintain your comfortable life with a sort of mystique.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Life
  • Live
  • Culture

• The United Nations Children's Fund reports that more than 18 million children worldwide have lost both parents to the ravages of AIDS, starvation, war or natural disasters.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Children
  • War
  • Parents

• That's what's interesting about the Lower East Side: It's New York, but it's also edgy. It's not as stuffy as Tribeca or Soho.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Interesting
  • New
  • New York

• War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • War
  • Courage
  • Israel

• Everybody wants to defeat the defending champs.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Defeat
  • Wants
  • Defending

• In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Time
  • Work
  • She

• Instead of trying to still his fears he encouraged them, with that superstitious impression which clings to us all, that if we expect evil very strongly it is the less likely to come; . . .

  

  George Eliot
  • Trying
  • Evil

• Fix your mind on truth, hold firm to virtue, rely on loving kindness, and find your recreation in the Arts.

  

  Confucius
  • Truth
  • Kindness
  • Recreation

• The truth can only be recalled, never invented.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Truth
  • Invented
  • Recalled

• Until someone is prepared to lay out the systemic problem, we will simply go through cycles of finding corruption, finding a scapegoat, eliminating the scapegoat, and relaxing until we find the next scandal.

  

  Newt Gingrich

• Seeing the bigger picture opens your eyes to what is the truth.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Truth
  • Eyes
  • Picture