Wadada Leo Smith Quotes
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When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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God is not accustomed to refusing a good gift to those who ask for one. Since he is good, and especially to those who are faithful to him, let us hold fast to him with all our soul, our heart, our strength, and so enjoy his light and see his glory and possess the grace of supernatural joy.
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I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball.
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You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.
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I don't really yell at people.
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You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.
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It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
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Eazy-E is going to remain Eazy-E. But I will not portray Compton as a bad city.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.
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The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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Musical theater is one of my passions.
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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
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I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.
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The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
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For the higher interest of the nation, you've got to be capable of hurting yourself.
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Caltech was a meat grinder like I could never have imagined.
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When a crime is committed, only the victim and the victim's close circle experience the event as pain, terror, death. To people hearing or reading about it, crime is a metaphor, a symbol of the ancient battles fought every day: evil versus good, chaos versus order.
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I'm tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading.
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I wanted to identify that the black experience is American experience.
