Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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You are not indispensable to your church, but you are indispensable to your family.
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In Yellowstone National Park, there are more 'do not feed the animals' signs than there are animals you might wish to feed.
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I worked as a telemarketer for an SAT-prep company. That was the worst of it, because I had to call people in post-Katrina New Orleans and offer them this very, very expensive SAT class. And I'm not even a good salesman.
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Stax was rejoicing in the difference in who we are, and that's what you see in the film.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
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The thing a drama school can't give you is instinct. It can sharpen instinct but that can't be taught, and you have to have intuition. It's an essential ingredient.
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For fiction, I'm not particularly nationalistic. I'm not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good work.
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Cleanliness is a good thing, which the society should embrace. But it has nothing to do with Modi, nor can he implement it.
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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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The only thing I'd ever wanted in my life was to be a major-league ballplayer, but I had to admit to myself that I wasn't good enough. It broke my heart.
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In sport, if you want to be the best you have to compete against the best - I would much rather have come tenth and be judged against everyone than come first and be judged against just a few.
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Whenever I see a tree that is climbable, it must be climbed. Sometimes when I'm on a run, I'll just run up a tree, jump on a branch and swing off. My favorite tree, in Saratoga, gets me a good 75 feet up.
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Wealth won't give you satisfaction; creating a good product that's well received by users is what matters most.
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You have to be an optimist, right? You have to be critical, then you have to be an optimist. Or else you're really stupid.
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Take away the contests of the martyrs, and you have taken away their crowns.
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I don't sleep at night at all. Making movies is a marathon. I'm a good 100-yard-dash guy.
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About 10 years ago, I took some vocal lessons. I'll bet that helped. I got a tape of exercises that the girl gave me, which I don't do anymore, but they were good. And I don't smoke.
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Exercise keeps me occupied, which is good for my mental health.
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That's the good thing about music: you can sing about people's lives in its stages and feelings. Some songs can put something in context that you couldn't. They can free your mind or can make you think or can be redeeming.
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When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good.
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It has been possible to trace historically back to a very early age the taxes which were imposed on medicines, spices and similar substances in German towns. Thus, for instance, one finds that in the year 1500, thirteen, in 1540, thirty-eight, and in 1708, already one hundred and twenty vegetable oils are mentioned.
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The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.
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It costs you something to do good!
