Kevin Young Quotes

In African-American culture, there's often a family historian, someone who does the genealogy or keeps the family Bible. I became aware that might be one role the poet has.

Kevin Young

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Asking questions about why I don't want kids is really none of your business, but at least it's a dialogue.

Jen Kirkman

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Coming together should be considered something positive for people and communities. When thoughts come together, that can be more positive than an individual thought.

Amitabh Bachchan

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My songs are more arrangements than they are songs.

Robin Trower

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I just want to improve and show the people what I can do on the pitch.

Romelu Lukaku

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I started out fighting before I was acting, actually, then got hurt and got into the acting.

Mickey Rourke

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I feel like I've started to grow up and be more of a woman instead of this crazy girl.

Miranda Lambert

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Our congressional district is the fastest growing in the state. Nowhere is there a greater need for new and improved roads and transit systems that will spare us the hours we spend each day in traffic.

Judy Biggert

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We shouldn't accept things just because somebody says so.

Dixie Lee Ray

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After all, when the world looks to America, they look to us because we are the most successful political and economic experiment in human history.

Condoleezza Rice

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Science is the greatest of all adventure stories, one that's been unfolding for thousands of years as we have sought to understand ourselves and our surroundings.

Brian Greene

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It's insane that, since the Beatles and Dylan, it's assumed that all musicians should do everything themselves. It's that ridiculous, teenage idea that when Mick Jagger sings, he's telling you something about his own life. It's so arrogant to think that people would want to know about it anyway!

Brian Eno

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I wouldn't have the life I have without television. I wouldn't be looking out my apartment window onto the East River; I wouldn't be able to afford to have my mother with me this summer. So television has been very good to me.

Susan Sullivan

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