Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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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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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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 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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There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
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A will finds a way.
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When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel.
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I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.
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It was in the air, or so it seemed to Kiki, this hatred of women and their bodies- it seeped in with every draught in the house; people brought it home on their shoes, they breathed it in off their newspapers. There was no way to control it.
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I was strongly encouraged by a science teacher who took an interest in me and presented me with a key to the laboratory to allow me to work whenever I wanted.
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While I have no empirical evidence to back this up, I bet that the number of homosexual people per thousand has not fluctuated all that much over the centuries. I do not believe the dented wisdom my father used to extol, that homosexuality was a sure sign of a civilization in decline.
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Her heart went out to him with a stronger movement than ever, at the thought that people would blame him. Maggie hated blame; she had been blamed her whole life, and nothing had come of it but evil tempers.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
