Alex Ebert Quotes
I try to give the music more of a campfire feel as opposed to a library atmosphere. I like when you can hear people hanging out in the songs and doing a little shuffling. It creates a feeling of participation.
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I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about.
A. J. Jacobs
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
Edmund Phelps
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It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where we are headed. The problem is, a good portion of what we choose to remember is about willed forgetting. Which we all do, I believe, to protect ourselves from what is too difficult.
Natasha Trethewey
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
J. M. Roberts
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The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.
Octavio Paz
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Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.
Patrick Dempsey
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
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What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.
Rachel Sklar
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Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed.
Vidya Balan
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My dad was really complex, and I was raised by that. My mom is really bright - very book bright - and so those things collide... I learned that I could put all of that stuff together in the world of acting, and I could make a dollar at it.
Omari Hardwick
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
Randy Quaid
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Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?
W. D. Richter
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A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.
Queen Rania of Jordan
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When I left office in 1979, I was about the only one who had really left public office on my own.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
La'Porsha Renae
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I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels, conventions or silly critical fads.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
E. O. Wilson
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
Halima Aden
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Every actor dreams of getting a second chance to reprise a role.
Andrew Keenan-Bolger
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I think over there in Montreal they're a bit hardcore with the old homos. They're not that keen on them.
Allan Carr
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The Uighurs are a Turkic people more closely related to Uzbeks and Kazakhs than to Chinese.
Barbara Demick
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I try to give the music more of a campfire feel as opposed to a library atmosphere. I like when you can hear people hanging out in the songs and doing a little shuffling. It creates a feeling of participation.
Alex Ebert