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Gil Scott-Heron Quotes

The way you get to know yourself is by the expressions on other people's faces, because that's the only thing that you can see, unless you carry a mirror about.

Gil Scott-Heron

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: April 1, 1949 - May 27, 2011

Topics

Mirror Yourself People You Know Way

I ended up writing songs and growing up in public with my songwriting. And it's a good thing for me back then: in the early '70s, there was a thing called artist development, where an artist could find his feet, find himself, find his voice. I think I made five or six albums before I sold five or six albums.

John Mellencamp

Good Me Growing Up Writing Think

I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.

Robert Mapplethorpe

Wish I Wish Elegant Could

I am lucky: I have fantastic doctors and a fantastic dentist.

Anna Deavere Smith

I Am Lucky Dentist Fantastic Doctors

My faith, and especially my faith as a Catholic, does inform me and does guide me.

Steve King

Faith Me Guide Catholic Does Inform

I'm definitely a crier. I get really emotional if someone's being rude or says something mean about me.

Sky Ferreira

Me Someone Rude Mean Emotional Get

My parents are from north London, and so it's not like I'm some Yank who wants to make a profit out of football. I don't care about making money. I just want to see Spurs succeed and, if I can help, that's great.

Steve Nash

Great Money Football Parents Succeed

We have a great sense of togetherness. It is our team spirit that has taken us to this World Cup.

Robbie Keane

Great Team World Spirit Togetherness

The first time I met Patti Smith was in a laundromat. We knew some of the same people, including Richard Hell.

Tom Verlaine

Time People Hell First Time First

Truth implies meaning.

Lukas Foss

Truth Meaning Implies

Coming from New Zealand and Australia is like a tough pre-school for Hollywood. And having been on 'Neighbours,' even though the agents I met with hadn't seen it, they knew it's where Russell Crowe and Guy Pearce had come from. It was a foot in the door.

Jay Ryan

Door Tough New Australia Hollywood

At the end of the day, I think people are starting to realize that if you say you stand for equality, it has to be equality across the board. It can't just be equality for people who look like me, are my gender, think or love like me. It has to be equality for everybody.

Jason Winston George

Love Day Equality People Me Think

The cost of college should never discourage anyone from going after a valuable degree.

Arne Duncan

College Never Degree Cost Going