Eli Siegel Quotes
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Hip-hop is rich in musical allusion. It takes something that already existed, respects it, and reuses it.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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Several of the energy companies want to do the right thing. It's a matter of leveling the playing field though for them and that's why corrective action here is necessary.
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Even as our economy starts to pick up, and new jobs are created, there is a risk that young people in Britain won't get the chances they deserve because businesses will continue to look elsewhere.
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You can blow on the dice all you want, but whether they come up 'seven' is still a function of random luck.
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In 20 years I want to look back and see a collection of crazy characters that I made - a menagerie.
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Self-confidence has always been one of my good qualities. I am always very confident. It is in my nature to be confident, to be aggressive. And it applies in my batting as well as wicketkeeping.
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I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.
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I know one writer who has been subscribing authors without their permission and sending out what she thinks are helpful advice sheets, but they come off as if she's a know-it-all. She thinks she's marketing herself and her work. All she's really doing is turning readers off.
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Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
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My dad and my mom were big Nat King Cole fans, so they had everything he did.
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I'm a progressive.
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I think it's good to be a little more fearless in saying what you feel. In not being scared of the repercussions of that.
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We would be silly to say that race issues don't exist in 2014.
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There are a lot of critics out there, a lot of people that you want to prove wrong. But that's what your hard work is for in the offseason, spending hours and hours in the gym.
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The problem is Silicon Valley, which is an amazing ecosystem, also ends up being an amazing bubble, with white guys talking to white guys about white-guy problems. So it's great, but you kind of miss a lot of things around you.
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Not all are called to be artists in the specific sense of the term. Yet, as Genesis has it, all men and women are entrusted with the task of crafting their own life: in a certain sense, they are to make of it a work of art, a masterpiece.
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The novel...creates a bemusing effect. The short story, on the other hand wakes the reader up. Not only that, it answers the primitive craving for art, the wit, paradox and beauty of shape, the longing to see a dramatic pattern and significance in our experience.
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A great work of art is one that continues to repay attention.
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One always treads with a joyful step when one has dropped the burden called the ego.
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Art is a way of showing greater fairness to things than is customary.
