Wadada Leo Smith Quotes
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Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
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There's all sorts of stuff people want to publish anonymously.
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That's the thing I like about my sound. It's real raw and very unsafe compared to a solid state kind of sound.
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I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.
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It used to be that you came out of school, and you got married - those who were going to get married. But my peers are getting married in their early 30s, so now there's like this extra 10 years of that angst.
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I'm not a party guy. I don't carouse very much.
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I worry about people who sell out to chase fame because when they get it, it might not be so satisfying.
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I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'
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I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me.
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The situation is quite serious - groundwater is important source for water use, including drinking water, and if it gets contaminated, it's very costly and difficult to clean.
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My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me.
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One day I undertook a tour through the country, and the diversity and beauties of nature I met with in this charming season, expelled every gloomy and vexatious thought.
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As his talent expands, some of his stories become pointed social commentary; some are surprisingly effective religious tracts, disguised as science fiction. Others still are nostalgic vignettes, but under it all is still Bradbury, the poet of 20th-century neurosis.
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I used to visit London when I was younger with my family. I feel very close to the city.
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My voice, I have to say, is kind of miraculous because I was born with a cleft palate.
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The characteristic feature of modernity is criticism: what is new is set over and against what is old, and it is this constant contrast that constitutes the continuity of tradition.
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We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.
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Brick-and-mortar at the end of the day matters because viral is great, but it comes and goes as fast.
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And then I got into sports and gave my guitar to my brother Jeff who was just a little kid at that time.
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There are lots of people whose style I admire, although I'd never dress like them. Chloe Sevigny is probably the most stylish woman ever, and Lady Gaga is amazing - it's fun to watch what she's going to wear next.
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People think 'Performance' blew my mind... my mind was blown long before that.
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The only realistic view is that a human life arises gradually, which is not much help in making personal decisions or devising public policy.
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Joy is a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.
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When you live in the South, you're constantly part of the civil rights movement.
