Adrian Younge Quotes
'Luke Cage' came out in 1972 at the height of the blaxploitation era. It was a literary response to this notion of blaxploitation movies. It was the first time in American culture that Hollywood was embracing black movies.
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Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
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So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.
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Ohio has long been an embarrassment to charter-school supporters nationwide, with its trail of scandal and graft and abysmal student performance.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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The John Birch Society is not ultra-conservative, communist-hating, and racist as opponents paint it.
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Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
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I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.
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When I put magic into a book - whether it's a wizard or a crusty old werewolf - I'm asking a reader to swallow a huge leap that is counter to everything he or she knows. An extra big helping of reality makes that leap go down a lot easier.
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I'm proposing a change: love thy worker-bee. Celebrate the ones who toil without complaint, play on a team, construct the hive, produce the honey... executing the plan!
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I've done all the table reads for Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow for all the pirate movies, because he's just been doing other stuff, and I just love the whole Jack Sparrow thing he's got going on; it is just genius, and I just think he has so much fun with it.
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You can't be preachy - kids are allergic to messages.
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Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.
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Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went down, although sales have gone up again in this country a bit and also the big companies, because they're so big, they need big sales really so they're not really interested.
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MTV in general is involved with so many artists - musicians, actors, people in the fashion industry, and art world.
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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One of the most widespread myths about the deal is that the Administration is outsourcing the security of our ports to a company from the United Arab Emirates.
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I'm just the biggest klutz. That's the problem. I don't get hurt doing cool things.
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As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University.
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The truth is, however rich people get, they hate paying tax. Some live abroad for a year, or years at a time just to avoid it. Bizarre really - desperate economic migrants are driven to leave their homeland because of poverty; tax exiles are driven overseas by their wealth.
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I wish I had more time to write.
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'Luke Cage' came out in 1972 at the height of the blaxploitation era. It was a literary response to this notion of blaxploitation movies. It was the first time in American culture that Hollywood was embracing black movies.
