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Music Journalist Inspirational Quotes (893)

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The immigration bill - the new immigration bill - [Bill Clinton] has stripped the courts, which Congress can do under the leadership of the president, so that people who had a right to asylum or to petition - for asylum who were legal residents are now unable to go through because that part of the bill has been taken out.
Nat Hentoff
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People don't have to put you in a box. You can have the confidence to move across, and combine and learn from each different practice. They inform each other.
David Toop
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Are Latino-Americans white? Black? Other? Illegal aliens from Mars? Or are we the very face of America?
Raquel Cepeda
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There are a lot of people that don't scour websites regularly or read music reviews. They need whatever, the other kinds of stuff, whether it's an appearance on Lettterman or posters or ads. They need to kind of be hit more in the face and be told that there's something new out there.
David Byrne
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Out of 30,000 edible plants thought to exist on earth, just eleven account for 93% of all that humans eat: oats, corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, yucca (also called tapioca or cassava), sorghum, millet, beans, barley, and rye.
Daniel Levitin
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America fell in love with the innocence of a kid who just was honest, saying, I did the best I could, and I had no formal training.
Paula Abdul
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I think it's a really important thing for women to be able to just put their hands up and go, I can't actually do any more.
Caitlin Moran
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I want to stress, this is the experience-growing up in a working-class family-that defined me and continues to define me. It's the core of my being. And it explains, incidentally, a good deal about my love of America.
Geoff Dyer
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I have trouble imagining what I could do that's beyond the practicality of what I can do.
David Byrne
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I don't think you can hold someone accountable for trampling someone else, because that person was probably pushed from behind. But if someone picks your pocket in a crowd, it's no different from any other act of that kind, in another situation.
John Seabrook
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The people around you are mirrors, I think. You see yourself reflected in their eyes. If the mirror is true, and smooth, you see your true self. That’s how you learn who you are.
Caitlin Moran
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Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits.
Studs Terkel
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No one shall deny me my own conclusions, nor my cat her reflective purr.
Irving Townsend
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[John] McCarthy's regime was ended by Senators who realized that he had gone too far. What we have now may be more insidious.
Nat Hentoff
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Many rock musicians are excellent cooks, I've found, and those that are prefer to eat their own cooking in the studio. I encourage this behavior as I also enjoy the benefits of fresh food
Steve Albini
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I am an Israeli-born American citizen.
Guy Oseary
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When you become part of something, in some way you count. It could be a march it could be a rally, even a brief one. You're part of something, and you suddenly realize you count. To count is very important.
Studs Terkel
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[A.J. Muste] was very influenced - in - influential in the peace movement, in the civil rights movement.
Nat Hentoff
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On me your voice falls as they say love should, Like an enormous yes.
Philip Larkin
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I didn't have any agenda or plan when I started writing stuff.
David Byrne
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You'll never miss the water 'til the well runs dry.
William Christopher Handy
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Rob Mullins is headed for status as an international celebrity.
Leonard Feather
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One of the great criticisms of poets of the past is that they said one thing and did another.
Philip Larkin
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Singing is a trick to get people to listen to music for longer than they would ordinarily.
David Byrne
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