Etheridge Knight Quotes
I boil my tears in a twisted spoon
And dance like an angel on the point of a needle.
Etheridge Knight
Quotes to Explore
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Do not let yourself get in your own way. Don't judge yourself and knock yourself down. There is enough of that out there already. Remember: you are an artist, and you bring something special to this craft. Take in notes and criticism, but don't let them define you. Don't try to become a watered down version of yourself.
Valerie Azlynn
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My mother has been my mentor in my life. The number one attribute was discipline. To be on time to school, never miss a day at school, and then checking out homework and making sure I was doing it correctly and signing me up for lots of activities, extra tests and classes.
Ram Shriram
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I fantasised about F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' - I loved it, and then I read everything J. D. Salinger had to offer. Then I was turned on to Kerouac, and his spontaneous prose, his stream of consciousness way of writing. I admired him so much, and I romanticised so much about the '40s and '50s.
Garrett Hedlund
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It's interesting because what I do and what I sing is, to other people, pretty unique. I feel I'm creating my own path... and I'm working on growing as a performer.
Jackie Evancho
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I was very intensely concerned with all kinds of new media.
Ted Nelson
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This right which you have, is not founded any more than his upon any quality or any merit in yourself which renders you worthy of it. Your soul and your body are, of themselves, indifferent to the state of boatman or that of duke; and there is no natural bond that attaches them to one condition rather than to another.
Blaise Pascal
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I'd have given ten conversations with Einstein for a first meeting with a pretty chorus girl.
Albert Camus
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You'd be so nice to come home to You'd be so nice by the fire...
Cole Porter
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There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.
Jack Kemp
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Solve a real problem. If the blockchain is the best tool, then use it. But never force it. Too many founders love the blockchain and then search for a problem to stick it.
Brayton Williams
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This London City, with all of its houses, palaces, steam-engines, cathedrals, and huge immeasurable traffic an tumult, what is it but a Thought, but millions of Thoughts made into One-a huge immeasurable Spirit of a Thought, embodied in brick, in iron, smoke, dust, Palaces, Parliaments, Hackney Coaches, Katherine Docks, and the rest of it! Not a brick was made but some man had to think of the making of that brick.
Thomas Carlyle
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I boil my tears in a twisted spoon
And dance like an angel on the point of a needle.
Etheridge Knight
