Elaine Equi Quotes
I've always liked language and been a big reader. I always loved books as objects. My favorite time of year as a child was September when we'd go buy all kinds of notebooks and pens and markers for school. I think I wanted to be a writer just so I'd be able to fill up all those pages.
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It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
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I'm half Puerto Rican and every Friday we have rice and beans and chicken in my house - so that's like a very Latin staple. It's just so comforting. I look forward to every single Friday because I just can't wait for my rice and beans and chicken.
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In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead.
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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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No one's a virgin, life screws us all!
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My mother is Italian and my dad's Irish. In my family, we're expressive. Nobody holds back.
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I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern.
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Just so people know, the Silverlake Conservatory of Music is not at all about celebrity or fame or being a star. It's an academic music school.
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Flannery O'Connor was a revelation for me. When I read her, I was very young, and I didn't understand what she was doing. I didn't see any of the Catholicism or any of the social stuff.
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Part of my affinity with urban music comes from being on 'Kids Incorporated,' 'cos we used to sit around and listen to Chaka Khan and Prince, and I got influenced by all that. Then gangsta rap got started, and I was infatuated with that - maybe that's why I'm fascinated by guns.
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I like tinkering with the tribe beat boxes and love using Reason as a beefed up beat box.
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In my eyes, a patriot is little more than an international blackleg.
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I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of - of American capitalism.
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There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.
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Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.
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There was something about the Cleveland Play House that was the holiest place - you know, with the ghost light on the stage and the brick. It was just the most beautiful theater in the world.
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My style hero was' Batman.' Now it's Tony Stark.
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I'm the reason why I'm overweight. No one made me do it. I did it.
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My father died when I was 9 years old. The miserable condition of my family at that time is beyond description. My family, solitary and without influence, became at once the target of much insult and abuse.
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Having a friend in the Kremlin would help Trump fulfill his longtime dream of planting his name in the Moscow skyline - a dream that he pursued even as he organized his presidential campaign.
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No man bosses me around, and no man ever will.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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Inspiration comes from everywhere: books, art, people on the street. It is an interior process for me.
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I've always liked language and been a big reader. I always loved books as objects. My favorite time of year as a child was September when we'd go buy all kinds of notebooks and pens and markers for school. I think I wanted to be a writer just so I'd be able to fill up all those pages.
