Eliza Griswold Quotes
The power of the voice in rap is about the expression of truth, rather than the expression of some kind of artifice. Landays, they're about love and pleasure and oppression and levels of oppression within a family. And because of that, I think rap music is probably closely related.
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I tend not to wear ties very often. I'm usually in old stuff: Hermes or Marc Jacobs boots and jeans and a T-shirt and a leather jacket or a jean jacket.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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My brother is the former mayor of Baltimore.
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When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.
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Every guy should be the owner of a really nice pen. When you put your thoughts down, or whenever you're going to share something with someone, it means something if it bleeds out in a nice ink.
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If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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Colombia is in a risky position. They've got a peace process that's going nowhere, and a drug production problem that's skyrocketing.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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Wrestling in Japan, obviously, the fans are a little bit different - very quiet, very respectful in New Japan - but here in the WWE, these fans are going nuts.
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I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.
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There were two very distinct voices going on in my head and I moved easily between them. One had to do with sports, street life and establishing myself as a male... The other voice, the one I had from my street friends and teammates, was increasingly dealing with the vocabulary of literature.
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I want to communicate to the everyday person. I don't want to just roll around in my own avant-garde pool of coolness.
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I love what I'm doing most of the time, but it's hard work. People only see your albums in the charts. They see us at award shows and after-show parties. They don't know about your doubts, the hard work that goes in.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.
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Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
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What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.
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Dare to visualize a world in which your most treasured dreams have become true.
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Love only variously everyday The meaning of love
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And if there is one thing that he and this year’s anniversary should teach us, if there’s one lesson I hope that Malia and Sasha and young people everywhere learn from this day, it’s that with enough effort, and enough empathy, and enough perseverance, and enough courage, people who love their country can change it.
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The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.
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Every poker player is smarter than me.
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I'd like to take a look at the process and see how it goes, ... It is not my inclination to do anything that would be divisive to the party.
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The power of the voice in rap is about the expression of truth, rather than the expression of some kind of artifice. Landays, they're about love and pleasure and oppression and levels of oppression within a family. And because of that, I think rap music is probably closely related.
