Marilyn Nelson Quotes
Many performance poets seem to believe that yelling a poem makes it comprehensible. They are wrong.
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I was raised in Topanga Canyon. It's an eclectic community up in the Santa Monica mountains. A lot of musicians lived there - Joni Mitchell, Neil Young - as well as artists and craftspeople.
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The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.
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I am very concerned about nutrition and always try to be careful about what I eat.
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I'm past my wooing days now. See, I am an honest person. If I like a girl, I will go and tell her.
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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
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We'll always be fascinated by people who live above the law.
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Moisturizing every night is important. When you're 50 or 60, it's going to show if you don't take care of it. You have to prepare when you're young, so you still have that healthy, glowing skin when you're 60 or 70.
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It's a trend to insult Wale, like that makes you cool on the Internet, and a part of it is because I respond.
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Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
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I was a horrible athlete.
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Maybe one of the only things I do well: I cook like a maniac! I would be a chef if I weren't an actor.
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I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fairy tales and myths.
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I believe in my music.
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Unless you're a big movie star, regular television work is going to bring you more exposure than anything. Everybody has a television; not everybody goes to the movies.
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I did some acting in high school, I knew I really liked it.
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Growing up, me and my brother, we were kind of exact opposites. We were completely yin and yang. He was more rough and tumble, and I just wanted to play with my girlfriends.
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Comedians are always hitting the topical notes that are on everybody's minds.
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I would actually like to play Bobby Brown. To me, he was just the King of R&B at one point.
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You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
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Hopefully there will be a day when all comedy is all robots.
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The real use of AI in industry is generally for very narrow pattern-matchers - a better search algorithm, an object-detection algorithm, etc. These things are tools which we can use - for good or evil. But they're nothing like self-aware beings.
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I think people can generally trust me, but they can trust me exactly because they know they don't have to.
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Space is going to be commonplace.
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Many performance poets seem to believe that yelling a poem makes it comprehensible. They are wrong.
