Elaine Equi Quotes
I have a lot of respect for advertising. If I didn't teach and could go back in time, I might try and become a copywriter. I especially like print ads that combine a photo with a short caption or tag line.
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Odd Future's like a network as opposed to like a rap group.
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It's an evolution. The same team doesn't always dominate, and it goes in cycles.
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A bad hair day for me is when it gets flat and greasy.
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Design is a tool that either allows us to create new markets or disrupt existing ones.
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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.
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I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and I felt like I was in heaven.
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A library implies an act of faith.
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Cursing is highly effective in person - someone kicks his car in rage, forgetting he's wearing flip-flops, flames pour from his mouth, and it's impressive. But you see it in print, and it's just ugly.
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A lot of my male vocal influences are British - people like David Bowie, Freddie Mercury and Robert Plant.
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Also we will be carrying food and clothes for the Expedition Two crew. And as well as spare parts for the EVA that will be conducted from the station in the following months.
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War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.
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Now here I was, half Jane Wyman, half Shirley Temple, and people began to stop me in the street and say, 'Don't worry, Barbara, it's all right, you won't lose your job.' It was really very touching.
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Not even the apparently enlightened principle of the ‘greatest good for the greatest number’ can excuse indifference to individual suffering. There is no test for progress other than its impact on the individual.
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From time immemorial man has been made in such a way that his vision of the world, so long as it has not been instilled under hypnosis, his motivations and scale of values, his actions and intentions are determined by his personal and group experience of life.
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My ethos is musical freedom: to create whatever I want.
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Before the day my grandmother shared her treasured letters with me, I honestly wasn't much of a fiction reader, let alone creative writer.
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The best way to look at any business is from the standpoint of the clients.
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I constantly push my body to meet what my mind wants me to be able to do.
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A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.
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On the much revered family of North American mythology - and a metaphor for the Ruling Alliance: Sacred family! .... The supposed home of all the virtues, where innocent children are tortured into their first falsehoods, where wills are broken by parental tyranny, and self-respect smothered by crowded, jostling egos.
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I think comedy is the perfect vehicle for that which is slightly beyond life.
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What I am interested in are the philosophies of the future. That's what drives me.
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Money isn't everything. Do you get married because of money? Do you have kids because of money?
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I have a lot of respect for advertising. If I didn't teach and could go back in time, I might try and become a copywriter. I especially like print ads that combine a photo with a short caption or tag line.
