Jimi Hendrix Quotes
Your people I do not understand, so to you I shall put an end, and you'll never hear surf music again.
Quotes to Explore
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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I was in New York. I had been doing theater for many years, and then I got hired to a little part - they weren't calling it an extra, but I didn't have lines. It was a 'featured' part.
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This work made me more and more interested in biological matter, and I decided that I really wanted to work on the X-ray analysis of biological molecules.
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But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.
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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.
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Democratic accountability means that governments must be popularly accepted, with citizens empowered to replace corrupt or incompetent rulers.
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I feel like I'm married to what I do, to the streets. And I feel like when the streets are mad, it's serious.
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If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?
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It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films.
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I've played Beckett. I put on in the 1950s the first Australian production of 'Waiting for Godot.' I played Estragon. The most interesting conversation I've had about Beckett was with a Dublin taxi driver.
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Wherever I go for the military, they always call me Lt. Dan. They just can't help it.
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We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.
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The talent is always there and art is cyclical. I'm optimistic.
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I learned that coming out was crucial to self-esteem.
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My passion for strengthening the community and making peoples' lives better is stronger now than when I first got into politics.
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When debts are not paid because they cannot be paid, the best thing to do is not talk about them, and shuffle the cards again.
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My energy to sing, I get it from my singing. Singing was not a reason to make a living. This is the only thing I wanted to do.
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Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen. These two arts, you may call them both either poetry or painting, have here interchanged the senses by which they penetrate to the intellect.
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Anne Frank's diary made a very big impression on me at age 12 or so.
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I think people need to commit to one another before they commit to bringing children into the world because that's the optimum arrangement for children, not to take anything at all away from women who have to rear their children by themselves.
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It is conflict overall that mires people in poverty. That is the first law of development.
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The sources and research I use for my inspiration aren't your typical sci-fi subjects, but it's really driven by obsession and personal anxiety more than trying to take up the sword and do what's right.
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Your people I do not understand, so to you I shall put an end, and you'll never hear surf music again.
