Gil Scott-Heron Quotes

If you're supposed to be doing something, the spirits will come and help you. They have helped me out with lines I shouldn't have known, chords I shouldn't have known. Every once in a while I get lines from somewhere, and I think, I better write this down.

Gil Scott-Heron

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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There are a lot of ethical firms on Wall Street.

John J. Mack

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When I'm on the set at 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,' of course the content isn't funny, but the other actors are hilarious.

Stephanie March

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At the end of the day, you are judged by your character. And look, I'm proud of my record of working to help people throughout my years of public service.

Steve Scalise

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American comic Bill Burr makes me laugh a lot.

Ronny Chieng

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In 2015, an opera opened about me and Justice Antonin Scalia. It's called 'Scalia/Ginsburg.' The composer, Derrick Wang, has degrees in music from Harvard and Yale. Enrolled in law school, he was reading dueling opinions by me and Justice Scalia and decided he could compose an appealing comic opera from them.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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I really do prioritise humour in people. It's a sign of intelligence. One of the most important things I heard that moulded me was Derek and Clive. That sense of release when I heard them for the first time, crying and laughing, was akin to seeing Sonic Youth for the first time.

Roisin Murphy

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People ask me to record their answering machines all the time. I love it. It's a miracle to me that people want to hear back those characters.

Mike Myers

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Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn't know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn't even smell like smoke.

Joyce Meyer

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I've always been inspired by women, and my mission was to inspire women. I always wanted to become a certain kind of woman, and I became that woman through fashion. It was a dialogue. I would see that the wrap dress made those women confident, and made them act with confidence.

Diane von Furstenberg

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Moses became America's true founding father because he evangelized action; he justified risk. He gave ordinary people the courage to live with uncertainty.

Bruce Feiler

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I shoot reality-based movies, and in actual locations, shooting them with a star is next to impossible.

Anurag Kashyap

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Oh Mr. Webster could never define what's being said between your heart and mine.

Alison Krauss

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