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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Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
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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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Forget your opponents; always play against par.
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I'm a hard worker and love my work. I have felt pulled toward work. And it's a pull I have ferociously had to counter to make room for my family.
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Sometimes I find it tiresome to write actions and describe the scene in a very intricate way so that every crew member understands where we are going - that I can find a little bit long and tiresome. But dialogue is just all my life. There's no way I could ever be challenged, not challenged, but I'm always so happy to write dialogue.
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Kein Drang nach Erkenntniß und Einsicht, um ihrer selbst Willen, belebt sein des Philisters Daseyn, auch keiner nach eigentlich ästhetischen Genüssen, als welcher dem ersteren durchaus verwandt ist. Was dennoch von Genüssen solcher Art etwan Mode, oder Auktorität, ihm aufdringt, wird er als eine Art Zwangsarbeit möglichst kurz abthun.
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Try to walk as much as you can, and keep your love for nature, for that is the true way to learn to understand art more and more. Painters understand nature and love her and teach us to see her. If one really loves nature, one can find beauty everywhere.
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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.
