Alan Lomax Quotes
You could hear him, literally, half a mile away when he opened up. He was at his peak then. He was, naturally, dying to get out of the place he was in, and he recorded for us his appeal for pardon to the governor.
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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Let us have peace.
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
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I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint.
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It is hard to look away from the swirl of media that the untimely and tragic death of Heath Ledger has engendered, and the Internet has jacked the frenzy into overdrive.
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I want to do it for myself. It's my goal and dream. All I can ask for is to get the chance and go out there and do the best I can, be as ready as I can.
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I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.
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In 1993, when I landed in Zimbabwe, there were just 10 psychiatrists in that country of 10 million people. Nine of the 10 were foreigners who spoke no regional language.
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God does arithmetic.
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I don't feel that I've had a life of abuse or that I am a victim in any way. My life is pretty typical of a lot of Americans of my generation who grew up in the sixties in families like mine that were sort of unconventional.
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I feel that we, as Indians, have a knack for loving a stereotypical, sobbing, sympathy-seeking personality. I feel that we need to promote quirky, cool and youthful talent. We have to stop propagating the sob-story angle of celebs, where they try to be larger-than-life. That is very outdated. It is so boring that it puts you to sleep.
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I train as hard as I can every time I train and I do extra training every day and I've done that since I was a young boy.
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Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in.
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Well, you know, Thomas Jefferson, who was the author of the Declaration of Independence said he wouldn't have any atheists in his cabinet because atheists wouldn't swear an oath to God. That was Jefferson and we have never had any Muslims in the cabinet.
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Democracy means that people can say what they want to. All the people. It means that they can vote as they wish. All the people. It means that they can worship God in any way they feel right, and that includes Christians and Jews and voodoo doctors as well.
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MTV has always given artists a platform to get their stories and music out to their fans and this series reveals the unknown side of T.I.-one of the world's greatest artists at the most precarious time in his life.
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Can't get up in the morning lately and I'm just sunk in a dream I'm always the ship in the stream
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Democrats believe we must create jobs, not protect the special interests; build the economy from the middle out, not the top down.
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Wealth per se I never too much valued, and my acquaintance with its possessors has by no means increased my veneration for it.
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You could hear him, literally, half a mile away when he opened up. He was at his peak then. He was, naturally, dying to get out of the place he was in, and he recorded for us his appeal for pardon to the governor.
