Lucille Clifton Quotes
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I am very happy my Olympic dream has come true.
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It seemed like the more complex the music we were playing, the less able we were to guarantee its consistency.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
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I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Plaza? No.
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I'm showing the younger generation your career doesn't have to be over when you're 16-years-old.
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I never saw myself as being ambitious, I saw myself as being in love with the profession. I'm a people person. I love to get to know different kinds of people.
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Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.
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We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.
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Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.
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Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.
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Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not to win it for them.
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The whole melodrama of the Middle East would be improved if amnesia were as common here as it is in melodramatic plots.
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In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.
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I'm really interested in playing my age.
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Because of my medical and ideological training, I am accustomed to saying that life is adaptation and symbiosis.
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Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact, fiction and autobiography.
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I lived somebody else's life. It was never about me, it was really about him on every level.
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And I found out about the wonderful world of sign language. I suddenly realized: If we as a society recognize Jewish culture, gay culture and Latino culture, we must recognize that this is a coherent culture, too. I think deafness is a disability for social constructionist reasons.
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The trouble is that the hockey stick graph become an icon and deniers reckoned if they could smash the icon, the whole concept of global warming would be destroyed with it.
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Intellect doesn't translate across cultures; intuition does.
