Casey Stengel Quotes
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An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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My own journey in becoming a poet began with memory - with the need to record and hold on to what was being lost. One of my earliest poems, 'Give and Take,' was about my Aunt Sugar, how I was losing her to her memory loss.
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When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents' converted garage.
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You can still make music that people love, but there won't be more innovation. I started listening to electronic music a long time ago. But mostly I listen to rap. I think rap is the most interesting.
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All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.
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There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.
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The guitar for me is a translation device. It's not a goal. And in some ways, jazz isn't a destination for me. For me, jazz is a vehicle that takes you to the true destination - a musical one that describes all kinds of stuff about the human condition and the way music works.
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There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population.
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I think singing and acting go hand in hand. Take an R&B singer: one song says, 'I love you,' the next is, 'Baby, don't leave me', the next is, 'If you leave me I don't care.' You have to drop in and out of different perspectives.
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I'm very competitive but in a very nice way.
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I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
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I moved on from dice baseball to 'MLB: The Show' on PlayStation.
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Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort.
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One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
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The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.
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I'm a much better mother at 46... than if I were like, 21 or 25.
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I have one talent, and that's figuring out what people want about two minutes before they know it themselves.
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The candidates before you know that the IFP has set up a system of deployed IFP national and provincial leaders who are not only monitoring the performance of candidates during these elections but will also do so after these elections.
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Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.
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I think I can sing, but that does not mean I can actually sing. I fear that I'm like one of those 'American Idol' contestants who truly believe they are good and are actually dreadful.
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I used to write on a big old couch, but I gave that away. I was wise enough to give it to my son, so if it turns out that the couch was essential to my work, at least the decision to be rid of it is not irreversible.
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Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.
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Without losers, where would the winners be?
