Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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I can't change everything by myself but I can be one of the people who are trying to change the situation.
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The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.
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I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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I got addicted to Tetris, playing it in my basement, I was missing all these airplane flights over it. After the fourth one that I missed, I realized I needed to get rid of this thing - so ever since then, I don't play video games any more.
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I do constantly get to change the way I look, which is sort of an old-school idea of acting.
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I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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A man's got to do what a man's got to do. A woman must do what he can't.
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Over the years, the most ponderous problem for women has been that men think that men and women are very different. Another of our massive problems is that women also think that men and women are very different.
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After 'Heart Skips A Beat' hit No.1, I barely had a chance to celebrate 'cos it was straight over to the judges' houses for the 'Xtra Factor,' filming in Greece, L.A. and Spain.
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As the facts change, change your thesis. Don't be a stubborn mule, or you'll get killed.
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Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.
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I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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With the work that I do as a director, I've got dialogue, camera movement, and character blocking to help create a tone to the piece. In photography, those elements are somewhat void so that tone becomes a bit more subtle but still equally important.
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A lot of fighters come from Brazil. We've been doing this for long, long years.
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I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!
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If some glorious angel suddenly descended through my living room ceiling and offered to take away the children I have and give me other, better children — more polite, funnier, nicer, smarter — I would cling to the children I have and pray away that atrocious spectacle.
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What did Christ really do? He hung out with hard-drinking fishermen.
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I'd love to still be able to play a bit of football, but my knees are shot to pieces.
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Planning is thinking beforehand how something is to be made or done, and mixing imagination with the product - which in a broad sense makes all of us planners. The only difference is that some people get a license to get paid for thinking and the rest of us just contribute our good thoughts to our fellow man.
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Thought is the most highly organized form of energy known to man.
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No man may make another free.
