Gene Chandler Quotes
Herb Kent is one of the great DJs of all time, and one of the great human beings of all time.
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I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.
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Moral authority has been laid to rest, world opinion is no more than a game show and the difference between good and evil is about as relevant as changing channels.
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First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money.
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The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world.
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As an entrepreneur, what drives you has to be the good news; otherwise, you just don't get out of bed.
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I love thinking about the film, the project and committing myself as much as possible.
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Music Box has proven itself in a few short years to be a cutting edge distributor with a sophisticated understanding of both the market and cinema.
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The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.
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Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
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We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry.
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I listen to very little music, particularly contemporary. If I listen to it, it's going to be my own music, some arrangement or something. I spend so much time listening that the way I relax is by watching things, a comedy; that's my way to wind down.
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I don't want to sit around the house. I want to be out there. I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That's me.
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I hate it when theater people go on about professionalism - aren't they boring? I try to be as unprofessional as possible. And I'm a little bit politically incorrect.
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Browsing for books with a mouse and screen is not nearly as joyful an act as wandering the stacks and getting lost in the labyrinthine corridors of knowledge. The best libraries are places of imagination, education and community. The best libraries have mystery to them.
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All societies that have survived have survived based on their ability to prepare their sons to be disposable, in war and at work-and therefore as dads.
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Theology is now little more than a branch of human ignorance. Indeed, it is ignorance with wings.
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The world is me and I am the world.
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In New York in the Forties or Fifties, everybody's in a suit, an overcoat and a hat.
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The Israeli public's willingness to enlist, the warm embrace for the soldiers and the residents of the south, and the desire to contribute and to give at any given moment really warm the heart, and it gives all of us strength.
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Child, that is why all the rest are now a horror to her. That is what happens to those who pluck and eat fruits at the wrong time and in the wrong way. Oh, the fruit is good, but they loath it ever after.
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Books have always been important to me - my mom was a first grade teacher, so I grew up reading all the time.
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Politicians are usually the first to forget that if you assume someone else is acting in bad faith, they will do the same to you. Questioning motives poisons the well.
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Herb Kent is one of the great DJs of all time, and one of the great human beings of all time.
