Alvin Ailey Quotes
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We live in a fast-paced culture where we're asked to make snap decisions all day long, so I suppose cash-point donations feed into the immediacy of our life experience. So it's a great idea. But I think it needs careful handling.
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Lately, I've been doing a lot of tuning in and impatiently tuning out. As a longtime fan of talk radio, I don't think this bodes well for the long-term broad appeal of the medium.
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There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish.
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If you ask me, rockabilly has had a raw deal for far too long. People never shunned the blues or jazz the way they do rockabilly. But it's the original punk-rock, and it changed the way people looked at music for ever.
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I don't really have an aversion to watching myself. I think I've been doing it for long enough that I have a system of separating it in my brain from my egotistical neuroses for the most part.
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In the long run, we need to build a leadership force of people. We have a whole strategy around not only providing folks with the foundational experience during their two years with us, but also then accelerating their leadership in ways that is strategic for the broader education reform movement.
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At his direction, I have taken command as the temporary Head of the Republic.
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Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
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In fiction, it's a big challenge to keep the reader in one place for so long.
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Syrian influence has not ended yet. It is going to be a very long path.
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As long as it says Metallica on the record it's Metallica.
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A landline is an anchor - busy signals, long distance bills, missed connections and all.
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If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.
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I simplify the spices. I'm the same way as everybody else: if I look at a recipe and there's ten spices in it, I'm going to have to think long and hard about when I'm going to be able to make that... so I try to simplify the spices to three or four.
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In waking a tiger, use a long stick.
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Most of our shows are about two and a half hours long.
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There is a long history of founders returning to companies and doing great things. Founders are able to set the vision for their companies with an authority no one else can.
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I'm so happy after such a long struggle to be living my true self. Welcome to the world, Caitlyn. Can't wait for you to get to know her/me.
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I've had a couple of long relationships. And I've had a couple of shorter relationships.
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Citizens victimized by genocide or abandoned by the international community do not make good neighbors, as their thirst for vengeance, their irredentism and their acceptance of violence as a means of generating change can turn them into future threats.
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Music is my 90% of my life and my biggest passion. I really don't have an interest in anything else.
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The film is not a success until it makes money. It's only good when there's a dollar figure attached to the box office.
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If he's a true symphony artist, he knows better than that because he knows that the only truly creative musician is the jazz musician.
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I'm attracted to long-legged girls with long arms and a little head.
