P. J. Harvey Quotes
I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels.P. J. Harvey
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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But in Japanese, there's actually not much of a relationship between the music and the words.
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When think about the Frank Oceans of the world, it's not like we don't have gay men within the hip-hop community.
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I've done nothing but show up and fight, go to work inside the Octagon, outside the Octagon, and do things right. But people want to talk about me and discredit me.
Daniel Cormier -
There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper.
Gary Webb
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Being American and being an outsider at the same time, it's a perspective I often bring to a character.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.
Barbara Smith -
To suggest that you can't be both a mother who is completely in love with her babies, and a professional who is tough and tenacious, is ridiculous.
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There will be mental worries with the long jump before Rio, but I know I can get through it. It's just getting my confidence back. I know I have a big jump in me.
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The more I learned about Shoeless Joe, the more I felt he was maligned.
D. B. Sweeney
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I was only 23 and just out of college when I filmed 'Casualty' and so nervous, but it was brilliant fun. I was really lucky, and it really helped my career.
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A lot of times people hide their quirks when they're first getting to know a person.
Kali Hawk -
Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
Gary Hamel -
Once you join the queue for the immigration line, pay attention to what the expeditor tells you. Have your papers ready. Don't have your cell phone out. Take off your hat. Open your passport to the page with your photo and present it to the immigration officer already open.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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I learned to hide aspects of my personality. Playing with girls was fine, for example, but playing with their Barbies was something I could do only behind closed doors.
Janet Mock
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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When you're working with music that is invariably better than you are, it's difficult to become swell-headed.
Andre Previn -
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
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Being-alone is a deficient mode of being-with; its possibility is a proof for the latter.
Martin Heidegger -
I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels.
P. J. Harvey