Dawud Wharnsby Ali Quotes
Only when I smell the earth upon my face, will I ever be free, to fly from this place.
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Love is the strongest and most fragile thing we have in life.
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I have composed several pieces which are performed outdoors, not only in the auditoria.
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Crankiness is a human attribute that, when people walk in the door of Xerox, they remain human. The best way to get the best out of people is to not force them to be something other than they naturally are. Now what do they have to be? They have to be respectful. You can't be ridiculously disrespectful.
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But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.
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I knew that going on 'One Tree Hill' was going to be an incredible vehicle for the record. What is amazing about it is that my role on the show is, you know, basically playing a musician, and all the songs she plays are off my record.
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Food is fuel and not a solution to anything other than giving your body nutrients. I love chocolate like the next girl, but it's not going to change my situation.
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Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
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We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.
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A desire of gain is common to mankind, and the general motive to business and industry.
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As a writer, you should care about reluctant readers. You want these kids to feel like books are amazing and cool and that they're an escape.
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One of the Life Saving men snapped the camera for us, taking a picture just as the machine had reached the end of the track and had risen to a height of about two feet.
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I think, for me, nature has always been my main point of reference. I think as a child I was fascinated by landscapes and nature wherever I went. I was able to travel all over Denmark, which is not that large, everywhere in this country where I've been I always loved the landscape.
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There is something in Poetry beyond Prose-reason; there are Mysteries in it not to be explained, but admired.
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Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est. (Applaud, my friends, the comedy is over.)
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I'm always learning from experiences because each one is different and there are different players involved in the project at the time with their own way of doing things.
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I think conflict is one of the things that makes for a good story.
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I like a movie that the audience actively has to participate in, and not just casually observe. Whatever my part in it, just as an audience member, I find that exciting.
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You don't protect Mark McGwire. The only way to protect him is hit 70 homers yourself.
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My father was adopted. He grew up in the Italian household.
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Sometimes I think I don't need a vacation because I do what I like to do. I am very fortunate!
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There's nothing like watching Dr. Oz and working out at the same time; you feel like you're the healthiest human being on the planet.
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It's easy to forget, given her scandal-tinged life and tragic death, how incredibly talented Whitney Houston was. She holds the world record as the most-awarded female act of all time, with over 415 major recognitions during her career. She is the only artist to chart seven consecutive number one songs.
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'Trapped In The Closet' lives in a place on the earth on its own. It pays its own rent, it's its own landlord, it owns the building, it's everything. And it's so separate from what R. Kelly does; that's the great thing about it.
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Only when I smell the earth upon my face, will I ever be free, to fly from this place.
