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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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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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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We would be silly to say that race issues don't exist in 2014.
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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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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
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There is one alternative to dark matter, and that is the assumption that Newton's laws don't hold over distances as great as galaxies. But we know that Newton's laws hold over a very large domain. And virtually one hundred percent of the physics and astronomy community believes that there is matter in the universe that does not radiate.
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A grandiose subject is not an assurance of a grandiose effect but, most likely, of the opposite.
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'Ridin' up in them GTO's and 4-4-2's, Grand Prix's, S.S's, causes we so so cool'
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Respect the place you live, be aware of the impact that you have on things.
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If you're going to write about war, which my books are about, wars are nasty things. I think it's sort of a cheap, easy way out to write a war story in which no one ultimately dies.
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I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor.
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How depressing, the Sleeper Service thought. That it should all come down to this; the person with the biggest stick prevails.
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Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
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Art is a way of showing greater fairness to things than is customary.
