Ben Harper Quotes
When it comes to writers and poets, for me it's Vinicius de Moraes. He's one of the greatest lyricists ever.
Ben Harper
Quotes to Explore
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Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
C. Northcote Parkinson
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Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I spent an awful lot of time listening to records. It was more the classical ones, really - Prokofiev, and I think there was some Mozart in there, and more impressionistic composers like Delius.
Wallace Shawn
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Sling your guitar to wherever you're going, and you'll be amazed by the connective power of music: It knows no boundaries, cultures or class.
Dan Hill
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Literally, when I go to the vocal coach, I'm like, 'You are teaching me nothing.' You know?
Zara Larsson
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My daughter and stepson are really broad-minded.
Sade Adu
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If the KKK was smart enough, they would've created gangsta rap because it's such a caricature of black culture and black masculinity.
Jackson Katz
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I really never thought I would be an actor professionally. I was very academic and was like, "That's so irresponsible. I would never do that." And now, here I am.
Andrea Savage
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Nothing is better than music; when it takes us out of time, it has done more for us than we have the right to hope for: it has broadened the limits of our sorrowful life, it has lit up the sweetness of our hours of happiness by effacing the pettinesses that diminish us, bringing us back pure and new to what was, what will be, what music has created for us.
Nadia Boulanger
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I really think [William] Burroughs was onto something here, when he said, "Dreams are a biologic necessity and your lifeline into space."
Quentin S. Crisp
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It is instructive to see how organizations pursue their goal of reducing errors and uncertainty. They impose standards, employ checklists, demand that knowledge workers list assumptions for their conclusions and document all sources. These actions either directly interfere with forming insights or create an environment where insights and discoveries are treated with suspicion because they might lead to errors. They signal to knowledge workers that their job is not to make mistakes. Even if they don't make discoveries, no one can blame them as long as they don't make mistakes.
Gary A. Klein
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If you have many desires your life will be interesting.
Jenny Holzer
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The new king [Alexander the Great] should perform acts so important and glorious as would make the poets and musicians of future ages labour and sweat to describe and celebrate him.
Plutarch
