Earle Brown Quotes
There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political.
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I know what to do and I go and execute.
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What goes for sex goes double for politics.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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When you can throw 97 miles an hour and put the ball over the plate anytime you want, it's fun.
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It should simply be an empirical matter whether the climate is changing or not and whether we're responsible. But the various sides of the debate have now become so tribal that it's no longer a matter of changing our views as more information comes in.
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I look for my opportunities, not trying to go outside of my genuine realm, because leadership has to be genuine and authentic.
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Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.
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If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.
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Someone has to stand up for wimps.
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I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well.
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A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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I realised I'd been spoiled at Liverpool. We were used to winning. In Italy I grew up as a person. I didn't enjoy the football, mind. It was very defensive, but I became a better player because of the work I had to do around the box. Off the pitch, I learned about what to eat and what to drink to be successful, and I learned about life.
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I love the produce section at the grocery store.
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I've never seen anything so abhorrent in my life as Harry Reid. He's an equal opportunity basher. He goes after everybody, and I think it has been so, frankly, disgusting.
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Connected to the collective heart, you can be certain in every cell of your being that you are never alone, and you will experience the grace, guidance and ease that comes when you are one with all there is.
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Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.
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The nature of the music business is such that it's better to have a few chances for some things to be successful than just one, and that's kind of been my attitude all along.
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I have a very simple mantra and it's this: I want to make black cinema with the power, beauty, and alienation of black music. That's my big goal. The larger preoccupation is how do we force cinema to respond to the existential, political, and spiritual dimensions of who we are as a people.
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A modest woman has good children.
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There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political.
