Wadada Leo Smith Quotes
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Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
Saint Augustine
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There's all sorts of stuff people want to publish anonymously.
Aaron Swartz
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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.
Adam Jones
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I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.
Katey Sagal
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In Sweden, they broadcast the American shows in English with Swedish subtitles, whereas in many European countries they dub them. Watching those shows in English was big for me.
Carl Hagelin
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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.
Zach Braff
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I'm not a party guy. I don't carouse very much.
Garry Shandling
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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.
Imelda May
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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.'
Magic Johnson
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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.
Vincent Bugliosi
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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.
Ma Jun
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The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
Larry MacPhail
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My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me.
Irwin Shaw
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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.
Daniel Boone
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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.
Damon Knight
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I used to visit London when I was younger with my family. I feel very close to the city.
Rachel Platten
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My voice, I have to say, is kind of miraculous because I was born with a cleft palate.
Gale Gordon
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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.
Octavio Paz
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Freedom and responsibility aren't interconnected things. They are the same thing.
Harry Browne
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Artists have different responsibilities in different eras. But at this point, I really feel like it's all hands on deck. An artist that's fiddle-faddling in opaque, gossamer gestures - I mean it's fine to do that, totally fine, but there's no time left. We don't have the luxury of time anymore.
Anohni
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I don't have a shred of regret about entering the exchange-rate mechanism.
John Major
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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.
Ramez Naam
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If you want to get your point across, you gotta cuss.
Eric Lynn Wright
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When you live in the South, you're constantly part of the civil rights movement.
Wadada Leo Smith