Lucille Clifton Quotes
Intellect doesn't translate across cultures; intuition does.
Lucille Clifton
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I am very happy my Olympic dream has come true.
Ma Long
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It seemed like the more complex the music we were playing, the less able we were to guarantee its consistency.
Walter Becker
Steely Dan
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Many of us came away from our youth thinking that the story of the Revolution was that the Americans were patriots fighting the oppressive British. It was kind of good versus evil, liberty versus tyranny. When you get into it, you find that it was much more complicated.
Nathaniel Philbrick
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Like Venice, Italy, New Orleans is a cultural treasure. And everyone who lived in the city should be allowed to come back. But that doesn't mean that they all should live in exactly the same spot that they lived before.
Ed McMahon
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I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my back story, that I was a songwriter, that I spent years trying to hone my craft and being rejected and then finally becoming a successful songwriter, record executive and publisher.
Kara DioGuardi
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I would bump A Tribe Called Quest in my car all day.
Fat Joe
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Because of my medical and ideological training, I am accustomed to saying that life is adaptation and symbiosis.
Tabare Vazquez
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If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I've made many, many, many large wigs in my career, and I've experimented with lots of materials to make them more fun and interesting and as big as possible. I like to use the lightest wig materials that I can.
Chris March
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I think that when a film does its job, it poses questions rather than gives answers. It should act as a frustrating counselor who, at your bidding for advice, says, 'What do you think?' I think that's some of what the culture critic Greg Tate meant by art leaving a 'metaphysical stain.'
Aunjanue Ellis
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Some people read business books looking for confirmation. I read them in search of disquiet. Confirmation is cheap, easy and ineffective. Restlessness and the scientific method, on the other hand, create a culture of testing and inquiry that can't help but push you forward.
Seth Godin
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Intellect doesn't translate across cultures; intuition does.
Lucille Clifton
