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Langston Hughes Quotes

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

Langston Hughes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: February 1, 1902 - May 22, 1967

Topics

Nature Beauty Happiness Escape Dying

Classical design is a mirror of the human mind. It's how we see the world.

Mirror Mind World Design Human See

The way you speak should not determine your intelligence. I should be able to say 'lit,' and you still know I'm intelligent. I should be able to say 'turn up,' and that doesn't take away from my intelligence. I wanted to break down that stereotype a little bit.

Intelligence Speak You Down Know

Some golfers, we are told, enjoy the landscape; but properly, the landscape shrivels and compresses into the grim, surrealistically vivid patch of grass directly under the golfer's eyes as he morosely walks toward where he thinks his ball might be.

Eyes Enjoy Landscape Grass Ball He

Over-the-knee socks remind me of the 1920s, silent films, and the stars of the era who wore the rolled-down stockings. They sort of referenced that in 'Cabaret,' when Liza Minnelli was singing 'Mein Herr,' and I love the way she looks in that scene.

Love Stars Me Singing Looks Socks

Diamonds never leave you... men do!

Men Diamonds You Never Leave

I always considered trying to make a living playing music. But it was always really clear to me, at the various stages in my life, that it really wasn't a possibility unless some phenomenal thing happened.

Life Music Me My Life Trying Living

Positive defaults align our short-term decisions with our long-term interests. And we don't always do that.

Positive Decisions Always Long-Term

I'm a big believer in human nature.

Robert Agostinelli

Nature Human Nature Human Big

Once I had a better beat, I needed to have an even better one. And somewhere in that climbing, I lost sight of, sort of, my moral and ethical underpinnings.

Better Lost Moral Sight Beat Even

There's no other product that changes function like the computer.

Product Changes Function Computer

Fashion is mysterious, as a rule. Why are blue jeans a classic? You just hit on something that happens to be timeless and right.

Diane von Furstenberg

Blue Fashion You Why Mysterious

I think the western is about people in harsh places trying to tame an unfriendly wilderness. Because life is defined by struggle, it's kind of the perfect microcosmic experience to explore that. 'Here we are, struggling.' It's about people persevering and persevering and persevering.

Life Experience Struggle People Kind

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