Amiri Baraka Quotes
This is said to us, even as this counterfeit president has legalized the Confederate Flag in Mississippi.
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I still study dance, and it's definitely something I want to incorporate in the future. It's always been my first love.
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In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L.A., there are people who have never tried Indian food... they've never even tasted it!
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I do not believe in any legacy. The past is dead and gone.
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We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.
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I am an obsessive personality. And if you are an obsessive personality, you need to be aware of it and be able to drive it with success. There are moments in your life when you are driving it well, but you shift and you shift badly and you hurt yourself.
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Actually, my wine was served at the White House twice. Reagan must have been asleep when he ordered it.
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Intelligence is sexy. Don't play dumb, especially young girls. Don't play dumb. And let people see that you are intelligent.
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I'm a professional geologist, an explorationist for oil. That's what I've done in my career, one that's culminated in - at least to this point - playing a part in finding the largest field in the last 40 years anywhere in the world. That's the Bakken field, which I believe will yield 24 billion barrels of oil in the decades to come, maybe more.
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I really am profoundly grateful just in general in my life. I've had an embarrassing amount of good fortune.
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It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.
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When I was 3, my parents strapped on a pair of Playskool plastic roller skates to my feet, and that's where the story begins.
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My generation's parents told their children, 'Become an accountant, a lawyer, or an engineer; that will give you a solid foothold in the middle class.' But these jobs are now being sent overseas. So in order to make it today, you have to do work that's hard to outsource, hard to automate.
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Country music is what is sincere; that's the main thing.
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Ruzzle's my therapy. When I get off the stage from a packed show and I'm exhausted, I'll just go Ruzzle for like a good 30 minutes.
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Most people say, 'Well, Earl, you sing the blues,' or however they want to categorize it. I just sing songs.
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I've never been much of a guitarist. I mean, I've played forever, but I was always more of a rhythm kind of guy. I don't read music.
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Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.
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Now, the entire world community recognizes Georgia. We are members of the United Nations and the Council of Europe. Everything is being prepared so that we will soon enter the European Union.
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Consciously picking the right script after a long period of wait helped me grab a perfect film in the rom-com genre.
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Who you get, and how it works out - there's so much luck involved, as well as the million branching consequences of your conscious choice of a mate, that no one and no amount of talking can untangle it if it turns out unhappily.
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I thought, as a kid, that I was The Doctor's biggest fan, so my mum and dad bought me a battery-operated Dalek. I must have worn it out, I played with it so much.
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Everybody just has to be held accountable for their own actions.
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One of the main dilemmas that's pretty common to a lot of people who are getting older is the idea that maybe there's a finish line and that maybe there's a time in your life when you start to slow down and stop and smell the roses and just kind of settle into what will be a comfortable period in your life.
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This is said to us, even as this counterfeit president has legalized the Confederate Flag in Mississippi.
