A. Philip Randolph Quotes
If someone tried to deprive you of your rights, you've got to resist it. You've got to resent it. You've got to fight against it.
Quotes to Explore
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When you make a living from something, it changes your relationship with it.
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If it helped you get your music off the ground, I'm glad you done it.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.
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You put anyone in the outfit, and they look like Gandalf. Not that clever.
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When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.
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When you're younger they always try to get you to do every ninny role that's going.
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Stuffed vine leaves tend to burn and/or stick when you cook them. To avoid this, use a heavy based pan lined with a few layers of second-rate leaves.
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If you're going on a plane journey, you're more likely to take one of my stories than 'Finnegan's Wake.'
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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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Where I'm from, you're a square if you go to church or if you decide to read the Koran or Bible.
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You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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The world can be very small. That's why you have to be very careful, whoever you meet.
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If you publish something in traditional media, it's one-way. With social media, we get all this info coming back from those who read our posts.
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I voted for you during your last election.
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Unless you're a salesman, or a bad guest on a talk show, you don't call someone by his name that often.
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I loved competing and winning and also wanted to continue my career for the fans, knowing they were there for me and enjoyed watching me fight.
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But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.
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My son was born somewhat late in my life and I just found myself really feeling like I didn't want to miss out on being a parent and being with him, and not wanting a situation where I was constantly pulled back and forth between being present, and having all these other pressures and considerations.
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We live in a technical society.
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I am so anti-people's opinions when I'm making a record, but when it's finished and I put it out there, I hope somebody likes it.
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If someone tried to deprive you of your rights, you've got to resist it. You've got to resent it. You've got to fight against it.
