Kevin Young Quotes
At our peril, we ignore the fact that black vernacular, like the blues, both has a form and performs... For just as there would be no American music without black folks, there would be very little of our American language.
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To even get to the Olympics, I have to qualify for the 2013 World Championships and the standard is high. I know I am always going to be a few points behind the top guys.
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Because we're able to adjust for compatibility - and what that means is we've already normalized for how well we think each person is going to get along with the other person - the only factor left in determining response rate, really, is the aesthetic appearance of the person who sent you that message.
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The science of life is changing hearts and minds.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.
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There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.
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Creating a character and living truthfully through her is a whole different ball game. It's all part of the same person but it's a much newer medium for me.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
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The trains were the beating heart of the New York graffiti scene.
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Often times I have been asked about the attributes for success, and I have said that you need two attributes for succeeding as an entrepreneur: one, courage, second, luck.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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The first Indy was definitely the one I remember. It's my favorite race I've ever done. It's the most memorable race I've ever done, for sure. Even more than when I won. I just remember everything about it.
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I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.
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I never really did any disco dancing.
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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
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Not only are police officers often taken for granted, many people are highly vocal about their dislike for cops.
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Small improvements in the way you use your time can translate into major differences in your life.
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Usually, there's nothing being thrown toward the stage or at me. Then I feel pretty good about it.
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It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry.
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I always have difficulty with the Greek tragic plays. I think the difficulty one has - which is a serious problem - is the question of belief. Do you believe in the myth that the play expresses? Do you believe in it as myth or as reality? With any play, you have to believe in it as reality. You can't act a myth.
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At our peril, we ignore the fact that black vernacular, like the blues, both has a form and performs... For just as there would be no American music without black folks, there would be very little of our American language.
