Elijah Parish Lovejoy Quotes
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A lot of people who curate in the business, and curate the art, don't really have good artistic sense. They may know commerce, but they aren't savvy enough to know how to balance commerce and art, you know? They don't know how to satisfy both palates.
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The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.
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But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.
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I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.
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In Zurich, in a cafe overlooking the Limmat, I ate butter-drenched white asparagus pulled from the ground that morning; it had the aftertaste of champagne. I've been able to appreciate epic meals in San Francisco, New Orleans, Berlin, Paris, Las Vegas.
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I went into science, ending up with a Ph.D. in cell biology, but along the way I found out that experimental science involves many hours and days and nights of laboratory work, which is a lot like washing dishes, only a little more challenging. I was too impatient, and maybe a little too sloppy, for it.
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Just because you make a good plan, doesn't mean that's what's gonna happen.
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Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
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Toward the end of the Olympics, you get physically tired and drained. And no matter how much rest you have, your body is tired.
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Siberia is a state of mind.
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After the 'Grey Album,' everyone thought of me as the hip-hop guy, the remix maestro. I didn't know how to show them otherwise.
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It's illegal to be gay in Little Rock - this is such a reality for so many people, but once people get to these bubbles of New York or L.A. or Boulder, Colorado, they forget.
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Human beings are the only animals who have the capacity to envisage something that is not present or something that does not yet exist but which is merely possible. The imagination has thus been the cause of our major achievements in science and technology as well as in art and religion.
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Assume the worst about people and you get the worst.
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Pray thee, take care, that tak'st my book in hand, To read it well: that is, to understand.
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He never went very far astray in his official business, because he always obeyed the clerks and followed precedents.
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Come away; poverty's catching.
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I want every girl in the world to pick up a guitar and start screaming.
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I know two kinds of audience only – one coughing, and one not coughing.
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I've spent my whole life in real estate, whether it's in our hotels or looking at the competition, and it's my curse to walk into every room and not be drawn to the flaws and have the little imperfections drive me crazy - because they didn't need to happen.
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For me, triathlons were something that was down to me and my fitness. Now, I really enjoy the pain in the triathlon of chasing someone down. It's a bit like chasing down Nico Rosberg in the last few laps at Silverstone - it makes you feel alive.
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Maybe if they all could he combined - art, rock and fashion. Those were always my favorite things.
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There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.
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If I am not safe in Alton, I shall not be safe anywhere.
