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Pearl Cleage Quotes

Putting words on paper regularly is part of the necessary discipline of writing. A journal is a great way to do that.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: December 7, 1948

Topics

Great Discipline Words Writing Way

The whole band is from Alaska. It's like growing up anywhere else.

Growing Up Growing Alaska Band Up

I play games on-set at work. Sometimes I can't remember people's names, so I start throwing out clues. Like if I can't think of George Clooney, I'll say, 'You know, drop-dead gorgeous, was on a big TV show... ' Until someone says his name, I can't finish my story!

Andie MacDowell

Work People Start Story Think Name

Actually, because I'm so small, when I strike an open A chord I get physically thrown to the left, and when I play an open G chord I go right. That's how hard I play, and that's how a lot of my stage act has come about. I just go where the guitar takes me.

Me Small Guitar Play Go Strike

One does not set out with the idea that I've just had a great idea and now I'm going to go and carry it out. Almost all art that's made like that doesn't go anywhere.

Great Art Go Now Out Going

I am not entering politics to be another Knesset member. If I enter the political arena I want to be prime minister. Period.

Politics I Am Political Want Prime

It makes no sense to pack an auditorium with 5,000 people and then tell them to keep quiet.

People Quiet No Sense Tell Sense

It was extremely dangerous to be a black man in the KKK. If I'd been exposed, it could have all gone horribly wrong. The Klansmen were armed, and there was always a peril.

Man Black Wrong Dangerous Always

Entrepreneurs love to view risk as binary. The more you put on the line, the greater the potential for reward.

Love Potential View You Reward Risk

Well, for me, what I've learned at the very end of this, love is sharing, and I think that really is, for me, the best place to go to experience love, is sharing.

Love Best Experience Love Is Me End

You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires.

Girl End You Know Empires Empire

'Shark Tank''s participatory. There's so many people on Twitter for this show, and they all feel like they're in the tank, making calls on this stuff.

People Feel Shark Show Like Stuff

Samuel Johnson called it the vanity of human wishes, and Buddhists talk about the endless cycle of desire. Social psychologists say we get trapped on a hedonic treadmill. What they all mean is that we wish, plan and work for things that we think will make us happy, but when we finally get them, we aren't nearly as happy as we thought we'd be.

Work Happy Think Thought Wish Plan

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