Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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A lot of guys and people in our society think that chicks just love dudes with money. Chicks love dudes who are successful who happen to have money - do you know what I mean? Chicks are attracted to dudes that are doing their own thing.
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No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will.
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Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
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To me hair dressing means shape. It's very important that the foundations should be right.
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Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.
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As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.
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I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.
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The relationship between ARMgold and Harmony continues to develop and grow.
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.
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So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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I want to thank the pioneering women who years ago opened the doors of politics in Costa Rica. My government will be open to all Costa Ricans of good faith.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter.
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I don't want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever.
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I live my life through fear. If I'm afraid of it I'll do it just so I'm not afraid of it anymore.
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For some people, a park is the only place in their entire world where they can see something beautiful.
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When you're in the midst of writing, it's a beautiful thing happening through you. Many people have said that it's not you, it's the soul of humankind and so on, I don't know. But it has the same effect [as music]. It takes you out of your body and out of this planet.
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I give away CDs at shows if someone wants a CD but doesn't have any money. I wouldn't want to do that forever.
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... and what you are left with is a premonition of the way your life will fade behind you, like a book you have read too quickly, leaving a dwindling trail of images and emotions until all you can remember is a name.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
