Antoinette Brown Blackwell Quotes
If human justice is to supplement Nature's provisions, all family duties must be shared equitably, in person or by proxy.
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I made up 'Badlands'; anything I say, goes. I came to realize I was materializing a metaphor for my mental state.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
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Lauren Goode and I have agreed that the next version of the Mac software - all of them are named after places in California - should be named either Bridgeport or Warwick.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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I was lucky enough to have parents with a huge film library. My mum is a huge Bollywood film geek. When we were kids, we would watch Indian films with her as well as Chinese and Japanese films. My father was more into the classics, American films, and also Hitchcock films.
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We can only restore faith in government if the state itself becomes an efficient, effective and transparent ally of the people. Bureaucratic inefficiencies, abuses of power and the misappropriation of public funds must end.
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Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?
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I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.
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Um, well, I made a new CD called 'Dream With Me' and it's out now, and I'm really excited about it.
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Medicine, you have to take it. A vitamin is nice to have, but honestly, you can skip it.
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I grew up in New York City - I grew up surrounded by every sound that you imagine can come from a New Yorker. All of the different boroughs and all of the different sounds.
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I love women.
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I'm not interested so much in collaboration. You see that from the history of my albums.
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I didn't aim at anything except good music.
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Tell a man that he is putting on a stage performance in order to get what he wants, and he will irritably reject your observation. Why? Because most people go through life as cunning actors with a permanent horror of getting found out.
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What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.
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Say another terrorist turned up in London, Bin Laden ... and he were to announce that new terrorist attacks were forthcoming against civilian sites in the United States
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I love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand because we're a show business family and we all work.
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For the moment the peril was nowhere and yet everywhere. The majority remained solid; but the leaders became stiff and exacting.
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When I forget that the stars shine in air – When I forget that beauty is in stars – When I forget that love with beauty is – Will I forget thee: till then all things else.
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People have foolishly mistaken equality for sameness. Equality of the genders means that both have equal value and worth, and one is not better than the other. But it doesn't mean we're all exactly the same. And many of us who still believe in gender separation say, 'Vive la difference!
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If human justice is to supplement Nature's provisions, all family duties must be shared equitably, in person or by proxy.
