Amiri Baraka Quotes
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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I like 'MacNeil/Lehrer.'
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Actually, what will be shown from here to eternity will be Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr cavorting on the beach. 'From Here to Eternity' must have seemed like a chore to its director, Fred Zinnemann.
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I'm not so sure I believe in dopplegangers. I just prefer to be Dane DeHaan.
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May the work for the further development of chemical science, which has its strongest roots in this beautiful, strong and hard-working country of Sweden, continue to flourish in the future, for the promotion of culture and the benefit of mankind.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
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Personally, I am not so affected by my environment. What I build in the creative process is not necessarily connected to what I am physically in contact with. I am always observing everything, but it will not necessarily have a direct impact on what I do.
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Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
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My eyelashes are divas, so they will like a mascara brand one week or for a month, and then they'll just stop working for it. I go back and forth between Maybelline and Cover Girl, and then I carry around a primer, too.
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I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.
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It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
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At the time of Woodstock, I was just 13, but I used to see these exotic hippy creatures and I did look on with envy. How could you not? In an ideal world, I would have loved to have been a hippy - but I might have been a bit strait-laced. It was my fantasy.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 laid the foundation for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but it also addressed nearly every other aspect of daily life in a would-be free democratic society.
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I'm more interested in characters who are a little difficult.
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I have a paralyzing fear of snakes.
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Negativity spreads faster than any Justin Bieber song.
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I feel like I know where I'm going. And I like where I'm going.
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'Northern Exposure.' I loved that show; I loved the way it was able to have episodes where somebody finds a woolly mammoth, he calls the museum in New York, they send a guy out, and the mammoth's gone because someone ate it. To me, that was everything I ever wanted to do. That show mixed emotion, humor and the surreal all at once.
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Power as an experience is as intense as sex. Power is more pervasive and unremitting. Sex has periods of remission.
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How many watched the President's speech last night? half-hearted audience applause How many watched American Idol? thundering applause Okay, there you go! You get the government you deserve.
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You can't be an American without being related to other Americans.
