Art Blakey Quotes
There's nothing wrong with it. It's only a word. What's in a name? Nothing! Cats say, "Call me Muhammed so-and-so. "
Quotes to Explore
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I think it's more important than ever to be as vocal as I can be about things I believe in outside of music.
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I always say, keep a diary and someday it'll keep you.
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I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.
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The civil rights fight was a very important fight.
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I continue to be very shy. I think a lot of actors and performers are really weird, shy people working it out onstage. I don't know why that is.
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To me, the job of a playwright is to explore and bring to light our lives. You can't hold back; you have to give in to this. Sometimes, you say things people don't want to hear.
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If a Democrat took Republicans on rudely, they wouldn't be elevated in the Democratic Party. There's a different standard. We're supposed to be polite to people.
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I don't use the voice of Bart when I'm making love to my husband, but Marge's voice turns him on a little.
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The novelist, he's not a philosopher, not a technician of spoken language. He's someone who writes, above all, and through the novel asks questions.
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I don't know what I was expecting or what I was dreaming about the xx accomplishing.
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L.A. still ranks as one of my guilty pleasures, along with butter-pecan ice cream and Coldplay albums.
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The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women.
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When you write songs for your best friends and maybe two other people to hear, and then realize that a million other people are going to hear them, it can be a bit worrying. You get concerned about what you might reveal.
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There is that smaller world which is the stage, and that larger stage which is the world.
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There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
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Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.
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There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.
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My workout involves cardio, jogging, and yoga as well. I am a firm believer of yoga and meditation.
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I take my spoken-word stuff extremely seriously because I feel like that's true writing, true lyricism.
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Sacrifice your life rather than your word.
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I enjoyed history at school. I'd always had a sense of pagan England.
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There's nothing wrong with it. It's only a word. What's in a name? Nothing! Cats say, "Call me Muhammed so-and-so. "
