Gil Scott-Heron Quotes

I was a piano player before I was a poet.

Gil Scott-Heron

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

PianoPoetPlayerBefore

High-end BREW phones aren't nearly as limited a gaming platform as you might think - they are a lot more powerful than an original Play Station, for example. Java phones, however, are saddled with a huge disadvantage for gaming.

John Carmack

ThinkYouPowerfulGamingPlayMore

I love being physical.

Joel Embiid

LoveBeingPhysicalI Love

Oftentimes, secrecy involves creating spaces that are outside of the law but are outside the normal channels of oversight. And I think it's pretty easy to see that if you create spaces that are essentially outside the law, then you're creating spaces where anything can happen.

Trevor Paglen

LawThinkEasyYouCreateChannels

While at college, I did my first lead on a network TV show, Medic.

Robert Vaughn

CollegeFirstLeadShowTV ShowDid

Ultimately, the problem is that sex is perceived as a personal, intimate thing, not in the realm of science. But that's not true. It's physiology; it's anatomy. It deserves to be studied.

Mary Roach

ScienceProblemSexTruePersonal

I always wanted to be a futbol player, but I was never good enough.

Diego Luna

GoodEnoughNeverAlwaysPlayer

If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine.

William H. Gass

FictionWouldFeminineGenresWere

The classic hat image was during the Forties and Fifties, and Elizabeth Taylor was the epitome of that; she was the ultimate celebrity of excess and glamour, and she worked major sun hats.

Philip Treacy

HatSunHatsCelebritySheImage

My brother Robert wanted to act from a very early age, and there was always a part of me that said we couldn't have two actors in the family because our parents would go mental. So I became a runner for the Robert Stigwood Organisation and, one way or another, worked my way up to movie publicist.

Philip Glenister

FamilyAgeBrotherParentsMeEarly

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

AgeHeartOld AgeTriumphCheerful

Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.

Mario Puzo

CompetitionFreeGeniusAchievingHe

I've felt strongly that the advantage of Linux is that it doesn't have a niche or any special market, but that different individuals and companies end up pushing it in the direction they want, and as such you end up with something that is pretty balanced across the board.

Linus Torvalds

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