Amiri Baraka Quotes
I always liked jazz. And my people liked the old blues, race records and the doo-wop and all that.
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I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.
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In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.
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I'm very close with Bob and his lovely, fabulous wife Catherine, too.
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Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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I always think it's because of you know hard work, hard training. And if Susie's training hard, you know, why can't I train hard to get a world record. I'm doing the same thing.
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You'd believe that a patient with hypertension, if you know you have hypertension or diabetes, you would take your drug every day. The compliance rate is more like 30% or 40%. Which means that 60% of patients don't take their drugs, and they actually go into these crises, end up in the hospital.
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I always do my interviews face to face.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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I'm not a sun person.
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
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I sold Blockbuster because I saw what was coming: the satellite dish, technology that would make the business obsolete in a few years. Why would people go to a store for a video and then have to return it when they had a dish?
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Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.
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I'm the girl who will show up in jeans no matter what - but the jeans can get fancier and fancier.
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The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.
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The money was going to come and go, between a wife and the IRS. The thrill of beating the best field in golf is what will always stay with me.
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'The Exorcist' is absolutely my favorite horror film, and I watched it when I was, like, seven years old with my mother for the first time. I don't know why my mom let me watch that. I couldn't go to the bathroom by myself. I couldn't go upstairs by myself. I couldn't sleep.
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Of course, not everything is unsayable in words, only the living truth.
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Sometime, somewhere you take something to be the truth. But if you cling to it too strongly, then even when the truth comes in person and knocks on your door, you will not open it.
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...others, with halos shaped like rollercoasters you'd stand in line to ride twice.
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I've never been one of the cool people at school, but then again, I don't get the people who are cool. It's not that I don't like them, it's just that they don't interest me.
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The only actors who can really do justice to their parts are the ones who don't know what they are.
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I always liked jazz. And my people liked the old blues, race records and the doo-wop and all that.
