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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It is as bad as bad can be: it is ill-fed, ill-killed, ill-kept, and ill-drest.
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I love all kinds of art. I mean, I love sketching and acting and music.
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We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. My wife's fine with it, but the rule is when I'm over double her weight, it's over.
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Most of all, however, critics of black conservatives say we've forgotten where we came from. I may forget a federal budget number or, God forbid, to set the alarm clock for my weekly 6 a.m. flight to Washington, but I know exactly where I came from.
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Display startling novelty-rise afresh like the sun every day. Change too the scene on which you shine, so that you rloss may be felt in the old scenes of your triumph, while the novelty of your powers wins applause in the new.
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No man may make another free.
