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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I look at my people, and I look at those who control them - the political elite. And the sad thing is that the elites are just not interested in the welfare of the people.
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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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Every day is like Halloween or Christmas eve for me. I go to bed, and I'm so excited to get back to work. I'm very lucky that I have a career like that 'cause not many people do.
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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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I claim the right not to incriminate myself.
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In art, truth is a means to an end; in science, it is the only end.
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I grew up babysitting and always enjoyed it. I love family. A couple of my closest friends have kids, and I'm their godfather, and that's one of my greatest pleasures in life, just picking them up from school and hanging out with them.
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My words wear no parachutes as they fall out of my mouth.
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If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
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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.
