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Gil Scott-Heron Quotes

I don't mind being criticized. I enjoy being criticized personally, not by rumor.

Gil Scott-Heron

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Mind Enjoy Being Personally Rumor

I believe the relationship you have with your government is not so different to a love relationship.

Love Relationship Government Believe

The gig economy is empowerment. This new business paradigm empowers individuals to better shape their own destiny and leverage their existing assets to their benefit.

Business Destiny Better Empowerment

I do like playing the darker side of life but as much as the lighter side as well. They all resonate out of the same place, which is that everyone has a story to tell. Depending on their upbringing and their history, it determines who they are as an adult. My job is to take the role from there.

Life History Job Story Place Out

I think you can learn a lot about a guy from the way that he talks to you and the way that he compliments you. If he's complimenting you when you're just walking down the street and it's something completely pure and of the moment, then that's something you can take to heart.

Heart Moment Think Learn Walking

I came in the league as not a shooter, not a scorer. My game was to play defense and make my teammates better. The most important stat to me was that left column - winning. Nothing else matters.

Me Winning Game Better Play Nothing

A writer can spend a decade working obsessively on a novel, but in the commerce of publishing, many of the most important decisions about any book will be made based on very short pitches - from literary agent to editor to sales rep to bookstore buyer to a potential reader standing in the bookstore, asking, 'What's it about?'

Book Potential Decisions Short Will

In my research, I've interviewed a lot of people who never fit in, who are what you might call 'different': scientists, artists, thinkers. And if you drop down deep into their work and who they are, there is a tremendous amount of self-acceptance.

Work People Research Deep You Down

When AIDS hit, lots of people banded together to take care of each other and do what the government wasn't doing. When you grow up Jewish, as I have, you learn that everybody hates you, no one's going to help you, and you have to take care of yourself. That's a great maxim to the gay community, and we took it to heart; we took care of our own.

Community Heart Great Together Help

The first time I saw 'Star Wars,' I got so excited that I threw up.

Time First Time First Up Excited

It was not that socialism failed, it was the lack of socialism.

Wojciech Jaruzelski

Socialism Failed Lack

It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than they were in the Polish section of Chicago, and in many Italian and Irish tenements, or that any workshops could be worse than some of those I had seen in our foreign quarters.

Me Impossible Believe Chicago Irish

I saw my gender - and myself - as something of a construct. Like anyone who read one too many women studies' books in the 1990s, I aspired to both 'do' and undo my sex.

Women Myself Gender Sex Something

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