Alan Lomax Quotes
The essence of America lies not in the headlined heroes...but in the everyday folks who live and die unknown, yet leave their dreams as legacies
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When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.
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More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
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However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not accept his philosophy and, after several earlier attempts, was finally accepted into the Canadian Infantry Corps during the last year of World War II.
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I formally proposed. I'm a good Southern gentleman.
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Well - I was brought up as a Southern Baptist.
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How short our span! If you once realized how brief, you would refrain from causing any beast or man the smallest grief, the slightest pain.
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What I am is a thinking, feeling human being compelled by history.
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There's not enough said about the beauty of being able to focus on what you do well.
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I tried to bang down a lot of doors but Virgin were the only label who believed in what I was doing. I ended up with the label that understood what I was trying to do.
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When I'm very motivated, and when I have to compete, I change a little bit; I become very competitive.
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I think children are like pancakes. You sort of ruin the first one, and you get better at it the second time around.
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In my thesis, I made an intellectual exercise out of creating a pair of buildings that were a repeat but slightly different - dissonant things make me uncomfortable.
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My goal was to leverage the power of movies and the reach they have and include important messages. Of course, they still have to be entertaining so that people will watch them, but I wanted to make sure there was a message, a takeaway.
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For a while, I could only wear sweat pants because I was that intermediate size that you're not a small, you're not a large.
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When I do comedy, I lose all inhibition and introspection. I no longer care.
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I don't believe in blanket statements on race.
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I respect those who openly advocate for unlimited immigration to the United States. Open borders is an intellectually coherent, defensible position.
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Interviews usually upset me in one way or another.
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The degree of panic activity in my life is equal to the degree of my lack of personal spiritual experience.
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When you're challenged, you're totally alive and totally dealing with reality, particularly if it could be dangerous. And that excites me!
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The thing I love about vampires that I find so fascinating is that, unlike other sci-fi creations, they aren't monsters from the get-go, they're human beings first... and so what kind of human you are would dictate what kind of vampire you would be.
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It's weird: I've been to prison, I've seen the worst sort of violence and negative shit in the streets, but when it comes to putting my heart on the line and letting somebody get to know me in a relationship, it's very difficult.
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The essence of America lies not in the headlined heroes...but in the everyday folks who live and die unknown, yet leave their dreams as legacies
