Leroy Hood Quotes
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My thoughts fly to the old Icelandic storytellers who created our classics, whose personalities were so bound up with the masses that their names, unlike their lives' work, have not been preserved for posterity.
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Radio is for driving.
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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
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We were hunter-gatherers of information, and we moved from that to becoming farmers and cultivators of information.
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It's quite a job, so to speak, when you can really be with your child for 21 out of 24 hours.
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I don't remember feeling love.
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Don't you see what's at stake here? The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.
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We took Infosys public. That was a nonstop three-week global roadshow.
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I could have coached better.
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Comedy has become, I think, a very important branch of public intellectualism. But it still ain't Washington.
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Life is so much easier when I allow myself to be myself and go with the flow. Whatever that looks like on a given day. If I can get quiet enough to truly check-in with myself, I usually end up on the right track.
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I remember my first visit with my guru. He had shown that he read my mind. So I looked at the grass and I thought, 'My god, he's going to know all the things I don't want people to know.' I was really embarrassed. Then I looked up and he was looking directly at me with unconditional love.
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I started, actually, as an analyst on African affairs, mainly on Al Jazeera. I remember the first few series were about Saudi students, and the negotiations between the government and the Sudanese rebels in the south. And then, slowly, I was speaking about Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and a few other places.
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Modi may be rich in politics but is poor at heart.
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I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try.
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An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be.
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I’ve always been highly energized and have written poems in spurts. From the god-given first line right through the poem. And I don’t write two or three lines and then come back the next day and write two or three more; I write the whole poem at one sitting and then come back to it from time to time over the months or years and rework it.
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There is one thing, and only one, in the whole universe which we know more about than we could learn from external observation. That one thing is Man. We do not merely observe men, we are men. In this case we have, so to speak, inside information; we are in the know.
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I just accept that, if my party and my compatriots wish that I be removed from office, they must exercise that right and do so in the manner prescribed in the Constitution.
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The standard four food groups are based on American agricultural lobbies. Why do we have a milk group? Because we have a National Dairy Council. Why do we have a meat group? Because we have an extremely powerful meat lobby.
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And just as you can find hip-hop lyrics beating up on all these groups, including young Black men themselves, the primary producers of the music, you can also find lyrics celebrating them.
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Perfume is pretty good because nobody has to hold the product by their face or use it.
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I always designed clothes from a very young age because I didn't like the way they were. They were paralyzing; they were stilted.
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In the end, what counts is what you do.
