Tracy Chapman Quotes

What does the future look like if the heads of society ask our young people to risk their lives for questionable causes? I think it looks rather bleak.

Tracy Chapman

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Cubans have no bar to being legalized once they are in America. All other Hispanics - with the exception of Puerto Ricans - have to go through a broken, dysfunctional process. One group is American from day one. And all the rest are trying to be.

Joe Garcia

DayBrokenRestAmericanAmericaGo

I don't want to say everything happens for a reason but every day is lined up right next to the other one for a reason. The best you can do is do each day well with kindness and as a good person.

Mayim Bialik

KindnessGoodBestDayGood Person

You can't take care of charity unless you take care of yourself first.

Robert Kiyosaki

YourselfCareCharityTake CareYou

Around 2009, my audience started getting a lot more mainstream - younger people, R&B and hip-hop fans mixed in with the jazz audience.

Robert Glasper

PeopleJazzHip-HopMoreAudience

Many, many of my paintings have come from the first chapter of Moby Dick.

Robert Indiana

ChapterFirstComeManyMoby Dick

We'd have to suck away at oxygen canisters between songs just so that we could keep playing.

Michael Hutchence

PlayingAwayKeepSuckJustOxygen

I get a trickling few scripts that I'm lucky enough that some of them are great. I don't get loads of scripts.

Meryl Streep

GreatEnoughLuckyGetSomeFew

As friends go it is less important to live.

Rutherford B. Hayes

LiveFriendsGoImportantLess

A revival of 'Of Mice and Men' would have seemed out of place in years of Reaganomics, Donald Trump and Michael Milken, a time when Rambo supplied millions of filmgoers with a fantasy that masked what was really going on in their lives.

Jay Parini

TimeMenPlaceDonald TrumpFantasy

We have a demon, we have an angel inside, within our souls, and you just play with it, and sometimes the evil part of you wins the battle, in a very important decision, or in a bedtime, with your lover. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.

Demian Bichir

DecisionEvilAngelWinBattleLose

There's such a huge difference between a great arrangement of riffs and a song. Sometimes the two can be the same. But the difference is a song doesn't necessarily need a riff, whereas a riff doesn't necessarily mean you've got a good song on your hands.

Corey Taylor

GoodGreatSongHandsYouSometimes

In my normal life I'm a very unadventurous person.

Brian Eno

LifePersonNormalNormal LifeVery

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