Lester Cole Quotes
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Everybody feels better about himself, his community, and his country if employers are paying workers well. Economics, though, teaches that if every employer is pressured to raise wages, some labor will be priced out of the market.
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Ever since I can remember I was telling stories and had a huge interest in other people and what made them tick.
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Technologically, I live in the 17th century; I don't have a computer, I don't have any of that stuff. I don't look at the Internet, although I know people tell me I'm all over it. Somebody told me they Googled me, and they said I was mentioned two million times, some stupid thing... but who cares?
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My dad was in the movie 'Moonwalker,' and I knew he could sing really well, but I didn't know he could act. I saw that, and I said, 'Wow. I want to be just like him.'
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I probably went all the way to junior high school before a school doctor told me that I was 'dyslexic.'
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Nobody wanted to believe Jack Ma.
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When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted.
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I love how easy it is to run my business, Writing Workshops Los Angeles, with the help of email and my website. I love that I don't have to use cuneiform, a quill, or a typewriter to write my novels - I love to write on my laptop!
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Working in a bar was a horrific idea for me.
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I had a sense when I took the job that the 1976-77 Trail Blazers could be very good. We had made a lot of positive roster changes, but it wasn't until I had the team in training camp that I realized that this team could be special. Midway through that season, I felt we had a chance to win it all.
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Leadership - mobilization toward a common goal.
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It's better to make fun of yourself because you've always got someone around to make fun of, and they can't sue you.
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That metre itself forms an essential part of all true poetry is a principle which not even the assertions of an Aristotle or the pronouncements of a Plato can disestablish.
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I'm predisposed to never be in pure celebration mode.
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Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing you can't hear, and not bothering.
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I'm sure that had I not been a coach, I would have been some form of a teacher.
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Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.
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We put forth proposals. They are still on the table, ... They have yet properly to be considered by the other side.
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The poet is an untier of knots, and love without words is a knot, and it drowns.
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The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Each poet creates an expatriate space, a slightly skewed domain where things are freshly felt because they are freshly said.
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The way I feel about Crunk Feminists. Here you have a bunch of bloggers who are not even quoting any feminists' works who are telling me what I can do better when I've been doing this as my life's work while y'all still in college! What are you talking about? And their criticism was of the idea that we should approach people like Rick Ross and Lil' Wayne with love when they have lyrics that we don't like, as opposed to approaching them with hate. That's their issue: How dare I say I approach Rick Ross with love!
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I am the scroll of the poet behind which samurai swords are being sharpened.
