Conrad Black Quotes
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'Yellow Moon' was a poem. My wife at the time, Joel - she's dead now - it was our 25th anniversary. She had the chance to go on a cruise with her sister. And I'm home with the kids and looking up, and I saw the big moon, and I just started writing.
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If you're famous, you're not free.
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Occasionally, especially on video games and with a lot of the fighting stuff, to get what you feel is the proper sound, you have to imitate what you're doing, and occasionally I've gotten carried away and kicked over mic stands or punched things.
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Flirting is funny. And it's awkward and weird.
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I hate jet lag, but I love, love, love, love traveling - to meet new people, to try different foods because I'm a big foodie. I love food, even though people think models don't eat. We do eat.
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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For the 'Riddick' character, I try to get as ruthless as possible, and I want to be a machine.
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Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.
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I feel like my life experience is that of an outsider. Let me explain: my parents are from Panama, and they moved to the United States the year after I was born. They moved into an all-white neighborhood, where the previous black family had a cross burned on their lawn.
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So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import or interest than the individual.
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I do pinch myself, like when shows in non-English speaking countries are sold out, and people are singing my lyrics. I don't think I'll ever lose that; I'm always appreciative every day of the support I have as an artist, because I'm not a commercial artist.
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I am always nervous when I'm auditioning for a part I really want.
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Sometimes, if I allow time to be creative, it doesn't show up.
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After all, this is the Nation's ultimate judicial tribunal, nor a super-legal-aid bureau.
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The soul, when accustomed to superfluous things, acquires a strong habit of desiring things which are neither necessary for the preservation of the individual nor for that of the species. This desire is without limit, whilst those which are necessary are few in number and restricted within certain limits; but what is superfluous is without end...
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When they lay down beside me I made my confession to them. They touched both my eyes and I touched the dew on their hem. If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn, They will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem.
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To frown at pleasure, and to smile in pain.
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Burns stated that 'We've got to remember that the people who first hit us in 9/11 entered this country through Canada.'
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Malcolm X found the language that communicated across the board, from college professor to floor sweeper, all at the same time, without demeaning the intellect of either.
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I would have liked to be a nerd. I didn't even make it to that.
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Just as it is important in Latin America to discuss ideas that come from North America, I think it is interesting for North Americans to discuss ideas that come from Latin America or Africa and do not insert themselves into capitalist interests.
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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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The most important advance in the next fifty years will be in the realm of the spiritual - dealing with the spirit of thought.
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I had never heard of Walter Young before, and I do not expect to hear from him again.
