Cornel West Quotes
To be an intellectual really means to speak a truth that allows suffering to speak.
Cornel West
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
B. B. King
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The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
Quintilian
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We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I've ever heard in my life. I mean, really. I mean, not that the 'Girlfriend in a Coma' is, like, really funny.
Zach Galifianakis
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
Edmund Wilson
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Failing to engage in conflict is a terrible decision, one that puts our temporary comfort and the avoidance of discomfort ahead of the ultimate goal of our organization.
Patrick Lencioni
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I cherish the ballets made for myself by Mr. Balanchine. He never lost his temper. He was quiet, humble, the genius of the 20th century.
Patricia McBride
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I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine.
Kate Smith
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The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.
Kate Christensen
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Home is where you are appreciated, safe and protected, creative, and where you are loved - not where you are put in prison.
Nawal El Saadawi
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Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I've been speaking English since I could speak.
Yael Grobglas
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My original aim after 'The X Factor' was to earn enough money in a year to make the whole experience worth it - you know, buy a car, a flat.
Olly Murs
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What we can and should change is ourselves: our impatience, our egoism (including intellectual egoism), our sense of injury, our lack of love and forbearance. I regard every other attempt to change the world, even if it springs from the best intentions, as futile.
Hermann Hesse
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When we speak of the commerce with our American colonies, fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.
Edmund Burke
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There are moments that you suffer a lot, moments you won't photograph. There are some people you like better than others. But you give, you receive, you cherish, you are there. When you are really there, you know when you see the picture later what you are seeing.
Sebastiao Salgado
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I am not here to teach martial arts, but to change people's lives!
Carlos Machado
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It's the same thing now. When I go onstage the young people scream and holler as much as the older generation.
Etta James
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To be an intellectual really means to speak a truth that allows suffering to speak.
Cornel West
