Gerald Vizenor Quotes
Race is an invention, not a noticeable genetic presence, and cultural traits are brute concoctions of the social sciences.
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Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.
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If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that because you're not going to have to do all that, you know, 'Prison Break' stuff where you can't really behave and speak like people do in a maximum-security prison.
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Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
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The fans sing my name around the world. When I meet fans, they ask, 'How are you? All good with your family?'
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I don't happen to approve of plastic surgery. I think God put plastic surgeons on this earth for good reasons - people get burned or people might have a nose like Pinocchio and that has to be fixed. But to just chop yourself up to look a few years younger? You could come out looking like a Picasso picture.
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I'm hanging in there, trying to spend as much quality time with my wife and kids as possible, and though it's very frustrating to know I won't beat the cancer, there's a great satisfaction in knowing that I'm walking off the field with no regrets.
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If I could make albums quicker, I'd be on a roll wouldn't I? Everything just seems to take so much time. I don't know why. Time... evaporates.
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Losing their reproductive rights is the first step to how women live in Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan.
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I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, generally, I would start playing gospel songs. People would come by on the street - you live in Time Square, you know how they do it - they would bunch up. And they would always compliment me on gospel tunes, but they would tip me when I played blues.
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I love home. I'll stay up there for days on end, I won't even go down the driveway to look for the mail.
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Making products that we sell around the world stamped with three proud words: Made in the USA.
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When I do think, 'Man a fucking motel room with a couple of thousand dollars' worth of narcotics would do me right,' I just look over at my dog and remember that Buster's never seen me high. (Scar Tissue, 2004).
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I did the voice of Cyclops on 'Shrek the Third'. I don't know how I got that. They said they wanted a Michael Chiklis type, and apparently it came down to me and Michael Chiklis, so how they gave it to me, I don't know.
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I did very well when I was younger, and I am fine.
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Life is really hard for some people.
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Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing.
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Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently your left side is your mother - which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother is part of you. I'm easing into that space, using it and being comforted by it.
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We have to be a forward-looking nation not a backward-looking nation, and I have to run the defence budget to deliver defence effect in the future, not to preserve regiments or shipyards just because they’ve been there for a long time in the past. And we move on. As a nation we move on.
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Race is an invention, not a noticeable genetic presence, and cultural traits are brute concoctions of the social sciences.
