Wadada Leo Smith Quotes
I always felt of myself as a composer, performer, improviser. I've never called myself a jazz man. I make art.
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There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
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My own journey in becoming a poet began with memory - with the need to record and hold on to what was being lost. One of my earliest poems, 'Give and Take,' was about my Aunt Sugar, how I was losing her to her memory loss.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose.
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All the women in my family are very dramatic by themselves. They make the biggest things out of nothing. I think that's where I learned a lot about being emotional.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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You can't tag me as a regional actress.
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I have seen in my life, I have struggled so much. I did not get support from anyone.
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On some level, I think we want our reading self to represent our best self.
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A quarterback is always going to be the most valuable player on a football field because he touches the ball every single offensive play.
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Tweeting is a very personal form of expression. Who else could talk about my son refusing to wear a suit to meet the Pope, my husband flying a helicopter, or take a twitpic from our home?
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I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and also have a family... they are nearly always seen as victims.
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A lot of fighters come from Brazil. We've been doing this for long, long years.
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The only way a kid is going to practice is if it's total fun for him... and it was for me.
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Dance should mean something to you.
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Bitcoin has so much potential, and that's why the believers are trying to facilitate its use as a currency, so people use to buy things and spread it around more.
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Elite athletes learn entitlement. They believe they are entitled to have women serve their needs. It's part of being a man. It's the cultural construction of masculinity.
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My wife will tell you that if you feel my hands before I walk on for a performance, you could chill a bottle of wine.
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Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.
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I just like to keep working and being able to pay my bills.
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This word "description" may be disconcerting when used to refer to what is generally called a translation. But when one wishes to render a verbal creation (as opposed to a didactic statement) from one language to another, he is confronted with two equally unsatisfactory choices. He may, according to his talents, elaborate a similar, but never identical creation, or he may describe that creation as completely as possible in his own language.
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The Christian religion teaches me two points-that there is a God whom men can know, and that their nature is so corrupt that they are unworthy of Him.
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A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.
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I always felt of myself as a composer, performer, improviser. I've never called myself a jazz man. I make art.
