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George Crumb

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APURVA GAGLANI The major economies are not American anymore. They are Asian and South American.
DAVID DOUGLAS DUNCAN There is no way that we know what is going on between the African American and the Asian American. W...
EDWARD JAMES OLMOS I make American films for American audiences and Asian films for Asian audiences.
JACKIE CHAN To black America, this is just another example of the judicial system trying to railroad an African-...
LEONARD MOORE We do have Museums of African American Art in the United States, and there is a National Museum of W...
MARI CARMEN RAMIREZ I will make sure that my administration reflects the diversity of the country, ... African American,...
BILL BRADLEY We have something by every famous composer and a mother lode of American music.
JAMES BILLINGTON Any staffing changes that disproportionately cut the number of African Americans at CNN - intentiona...
MARCIA FUDGE I'm an immigrant writer, or an African writer, or an Ethiopian-American writer, and occasionally...
DINAW MENGESTU Another special thing about our bridal show is that we are incorporating cultural wedding traditions...
FLORENCE BELCHER Michael Jackson fundamentally altered the terms of the debate about African American music. Remember...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON I learned that instead of relying on and imitating American music, there is a better chance for an A...
RAIN When I was growing up, Asians were so few and far between as to be almost invisible. And so the idea...
GRACE LEE BOGGS When we say Afro American, we include everyone in the Western Hemisphere of African descent. South A...
MALCOLM X There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.
B. D. WONG Asian Americans are the same as African American, Hispanic Americans, anyone: we deserve to be respe...
DAT NGUYEN There's still racism. Western Europe... has taken the native cultures of the Americas, the Afric...
HANS ROSLING Approximately 40 percent of our African-American teachers were hired in the last five years. And for...
DOUG YOUNG I have Native American blood. I have African blood. I have European blood.
TAMARA TUNIE This class is taught in an oral tradition like African and South American music is taught. The stude...
CAROL HELBLE My Native American heritage was not embraced by our family, and we grew up African-American, so I di...
TAMARA TUNIE [In the auto industry, for example,] There is no American car made that does not have parts made by ...
EARL GRAVES I have no intention of ever writing beauty tips on how to make an African-American nose look slimmer...
IMAN Gosnell is African American, and there is a persistent myth that serial killers are all white men. B...
ANN MCELHINNEY Further, while we are hopeful that, in aggregate, we are seeing a bottoming in activity levels, ther...
ALEXANDER CUTLER You saw a lot of African-American faces. But what you really see is poverty every one, white or Asia...
BOB FILNER You saw a lot of African-American faces. But what you really see is poverty – every one, white or A...
BOB FILNER You saw a lot of African-American faces. But what you really see is poverty – every one, white or ...
BOB FILNER There was a lot of feeling that with an African-American president, life on the South Side of Chicag...
MARK KIRK African-American history is not something that can be put on display solely during the month of Febr...
ROBERT HALL Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian ...
DENIS DIDEROT 'Mulan' is an iconic story for the Asian American community.
ROSS BUTLER Anyone who watches a lot of television, or listens to pop music, is familiar with a certain vision o...
WESLEY MORRIS I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being...
SAMUEL BARBER Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of Ameri...
CASSANDRA WILSON It is now apparent that the organizing efforts have reached beyond the Hispanic community and are no...
WENDY VASQUEZ Growing up as a South Asian-American, I didn't have any female role models.
PAYAL KADAKIA Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really ...
ALAN DUNDES European-Americans now have the National Organization for European American Rights, to actively defe...
DAVID DUKE I definitely have been approached and reached out to by a lot of young Asian American and Asian wome...
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ABHIJIT NASKAR The European Union will never see America, or an American president, as a risk.
FEDERICA MOGHERINI People who don't know what it's like to be an African American don't understand that it's OK, ... I ...
JACQUELINE WOODSON You have to think of Latin food as a couple of culinary superpowers: the Caribbean-African influence...
AARON SANCHEZ But in the African and African American tradition, stories are fitted to an occasion. You have stori...
CHARLAYNE WOODARD American high school students trail teenagers from 14 European and Asian countries in reading, math ...
SUZANNE FIELDS I am an American, not an Asian-American. My rejection of hyphenation has been called race treachery,...
BHARATI MUKHERJEE It?s good because the kids get an appreciation for African-American history.
COY PILSON I am not an African. I am an American.
ALBERT MURRAY African-American history is American history.
JOYCE WILLIAMS Curvy African-American women were celebrated. These girls didn't experience anxiety and shame about ...
GAYLE BROOKS More than anything, I'm an American kid, and my music reflects that more so than being an Asian-...
AWKWAFINA I think it was hard for people to cast me as an ethnic, as an Asian American woman.
CHLOE BENNET I can think of no faster way to unite the American people behind George W. Bush than a terrorist att...
HENRY KISSINGER The Ecuadorean and Latin American press is not like the European or North American press, which has ...
RAFAEL CORREA Now how would an officer come to such a presumption: would it be because the person 'did not look Am...
TRACI HONG My new mission is, and I've said this to the White House, I want the Buy America to be real. I w...
SHEILA JACKSON LEE What it says is George W. Bush is beyond not popular in the African-American community. He is dislik...
JAY CAMPBELL Many African-American men are incarcerated. And so African-American women do carry an enormous burde...
FAYE WATTLETON I don't do stuff to be a star. I do it because I feel it's important for kids, African Ameri...
MATT KEMP We will do for the veteran businesses what Black Enterprise has done for the African-American busine...
CHRIS HALE He was an African boy who was all-American.
BRUCE TURNER White folks have controlled New Orleans with money and guns, black folks have controlled it with mag...
TOM ROBBINS You know what the lowest rated episode we ever had was? Where Captain Kirk kissed Uhuru - a white ma...
GEORGE TAKEI early modern Christianity is often portrayed as an essentially European religion. This is regrettabl...
THOMAS C. ODEN The African-American community has a grave interest in the outcome of this case.
GREG JOHNSON Right now, there is a mad rush for the spoils of the country. The United States, European and South ...
ADONIS HOFFMAN It has both social, political and historical dynamics to it. That story is not singularly an African...
DANNY GLOVER I am closer to a European viewpoint of the world than an American one. My ethics and ideals are base...
BIANCA JAGGER We have formed a legal defense team that includes prominent American, European, Asian and Arab lawye...
ABDEL ALANI We have formed a legal defense team that includes prominent American, European, Asian and Arab lawye...
ABDEL HAQ ALANI The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed d...
FREDRIC JAMESON American television tends to move faster than European or U.K. television.
JASON WINSTON GEORGE We needed to encourage additional African-American, Mexican-American representation on the council.
HARRIET MIERS Jazz was the pop music of its day, and all American popular music has stemmed from it one way or ano...
BRIA SKONBERG The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any k...
VIRGIL THOMSON It's not at all my objective to become an Asian-American star.
DANIEL WU African-Americans are not a monolithic group. So, we tend to talk about the black community, the bla...
MALCOLM-JAMAL WARNER The South is a region of irony. It's both un-American and deeply American.
BILL FERRIS The African-American experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry.
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DAVID HARRINGTON It will be like an old-fashioned radio show. Appalachia is a crossroads of music, especially African...
JEFF BIGGERS We can now have action movies with two stars where one might be African American and one might be As...
ROGER EBERT Many African-American students are half American Indian as well.
BRENT COX Decades of record immigration have produced lower wages and higher unemployment for our citizens, es...
DONALD TRUMP I want to be a representative and be a role model for the Asian American community.
JEREMY LIN The party needs him and, for all I know, the nation needs him. There hasn't been an African-American...
STEPHEN HESS Democrats remain committed to issues important to the African-American community, which is why the 2...
AMAYA SMITH Yes, we become stronger when black and whites, Latino, Asian American, Native American, when all of ...
BERNIE SANDERS I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.
NAT KING COLE I think, though, as African-American women, we are always trained to value our community even at the...
ANITA HILL I grew up in Synagogue in the boys' choir. We didn't listen to music in the house; only at t...
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DADDY YANKEE I want to talk to the elders within the African American community. I want to get their sense, and t...
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GEORGE CRUMB I must confess, my Spanish is not so good - except I read a little, so I started with the English bu...
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GEORGE CRUMB One very important aspect of our contemporary musical culture - some might say the supremely importa...
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GEORGE CRUMB The development of new instrumental and vocal idioms has been one of the remarkable phenomena of rec...
GEORGE CRUMB This is not a happy time for this kind of music in this country.
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ROBERT CRUMB Everything that is strong in me has gone into my art work.
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ROBERT CRUMB If you're trying to work the art game, if you're like Andy Warhol or something, then you'...
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ROBERT CRUMB Oh, yes. I knew I was weird by the time I was four. I knew I wasn't like other boys. I knew I was mo...
ROBERT CRUMB I have always had an abiding interest in that type of female anatomy.
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ROBERT CRUMB The only burning passion I'm sure I have, is the passion for sex.
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ROBERT CRUMB When I come up against the real world, I just vacillate.
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ROBERT CRUMB I'm into old-time music; I'm not very interested in modern, popular music at all. And if I&#...
ROBERT CRUMB You can't make everybody love you. It's an exercise in futility, and it's probably not e...
ROBERT CRUMB There's many heroic underappreciated investigative journalists.
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ROBERT CRUMB You must thank the gods for art, those of us who have been fortunate enough to stumble onto this mea...
ROBERT CRUMB How perfectly goddamned delightful it all is, to be sure.
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ROBERT CRUMB I knew I was weird by the time I was four. I knew I wasn't like other boys. I knew I was more fe...
ROBERT CRUMB It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
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GEORGE TAKEI Every historian discloses a new horizon.
GEORGE SAND The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.
GEORGE SAND Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
GEORGE WASHINGTON First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, y...
GEORGE BURNS The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; ...
GEORGE SANTAYANA Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
GEORGE SANTAYANA History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
GEORGE SANTAYANA A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
GEORGE SANTAYANA When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.
GEORGE SANTAYANA A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
GEORGE SANTAYANA The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradicti...
GEORGE SANTAYANA People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they...
GEORGE CARLIN I was doing a civil rights musical here in Los Angeles, and we sang at one of the rallies where Dr. ...
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GEORGE LOIS I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.
GEORGE CARLIN True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, b...
GEORGE WASHINGTON The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and ye...
GEORGE ELIOT Electricity is really just organized lightning.
GEORGE CARLIN Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
GEORGE BURNS Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.
GEORGE BURNS I'm at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.
GEORGE BURNS I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.
GEORGE BURNS When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.
GEORGE BURNS If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
GEORGE BURNS If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding wo...
GEORGE BURNS I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.
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GEORGE BURNS I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.
GEORGE BURNS Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
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GEORGE BURNS I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at somethin...
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GEORGE BURNS Weather forecast for tonight: dark.
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GEORGE JONES You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right...
GEORGE LUCAS I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality... That's a fierce thing, to discover within you...
GEORGE STEVENS The influence of 'Hidden Fortress' comes up a lot because it was printed in a book once. The...
GEORGE LUCAS Getting rid of the dictator is only a first step in establishing a free society. The dictatorship mu...
GEORGE AYITTEY We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past,...
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WALLY GEORGE I am always the 'good guy', and I take on the idiotic jerks of the nation.
WALLY GEORGE I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, ma...
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INARA GEORGE I was raised in Topanga Canyon. It's an eclectic community up in the Santa Monica mountains. A l...
INARA GEORGE The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
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GEORGE ORWELL I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of a...
GEORGE WASHINGTON The status quo sucks.
GEORGE CARLIN The coward sneaks to death; the brave live on.
GEORGE SEWELL Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.
GEORGE GISSING The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a r...
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GEORGE BURNS Praise the bridge that carried you over.
GEORGE COLMAN We could never verify that there was any Iraqi authority, direction and control, complicity with al ...
GEORGE TENET In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and eve...
GEORGE GURDJIEFF Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'
GEORGE MCGOVERN Mixed feelings, like mixed drinks, are a confusion to the soul.
GEORGE CARMAN May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.
GEORGE CARLIN Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every libera...
GEORGE MASON Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.
GEORGE WHITEFIELD The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again.
GEORGE MILLER All art is dependent on technology because it's a human endeavour, so even when you're using...
GEORGE LUCAS No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.
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GEORGE ELIOT Winter dressing is all about having chic outerwear.
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GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS It's better if you have a strong opinion on any talk show.
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GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS I learned everything about fashion during my time at the 'NY Times.'
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GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS For slaves to fashion, the rules are made to be broken.
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GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS I like to spend Christmas with family and friends, pigging out, exchanging gifts and basically doing...
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS People are people the world over. Some are good, some bad, some greedy and some generous. Nations ar...
GEORGE AIKEN Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror.
GEORGE WALD Dictators cause the world's worst problems: all the collapsed states, and all the devastated eco...
GEORGE AYITTEY Sanity is madness put to good use.
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GEORGE MICHAEL There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.
HENRY GEORGE Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pay...
GEORGE GALLUP Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an...
GEORGE ORWELL Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we...
GEORGE SAND There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
GEORGE WASHINGTON The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.
GEORGE WASHINGTON Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your prepa...
GEORGE WASHINGTON Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.
GEORGE WASHINGTON I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require...
GEORGE WASHINGTON Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before i...
GEORGE WASHINGTON Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.
GEORGE ORWELL One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume...
GEORGE ORWELL The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of huma...
GEORGE ORWELL No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
GEORGE ORWELL Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire t...
GEORGE ORWELL War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.
GEORGE ORWELL A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
GEORGE ORWELL The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality...
GEORGE ORWELL One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.
GEORGE ORWELL At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.
GEORGE ORWELL Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually l...
GEORGE ORWELL If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a cr...
GEORGE ORWELL When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
GEORGE ORWELL Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exha...
GEORGE ORWELL Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.
GEORGE ORWELL War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.
GEORGE ORWELL Serious sport is war minus the shooting.
GEORGE ORWELL Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
GEORGE ORWELL Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.
GEORGE ORWELL It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequentl...
GEORGE ORWELL The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.
GEORGE ORWELL In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
GEORGE ORWELL I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corpora...
GEORGE ORWELL Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
GEORGE ORWELL It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one...
GEORGE ORWELL War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses t...
GEORGE ORWELL Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay egg...
GEORGE ORWELL Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defen...
GEORGE ORWELL What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments ...
GEORGE ORWELL Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of...
GEORGE ORWELL Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of al...
GEORGE ORWELL I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.
GEORGE ORWELL I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
GEORGE ORWELL There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one si...
GEORGE ORWELL Big Brother is watching you.
GEORGE ORWELL But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
GEORGE ORWELL Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
GEORGE ORWELL I intend to live life, not just exist.
GEORGE TAKEI If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
GEORGE ORWELL Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
GEORGE ORWELL Good writing is like a windowpane.
GEORGE ORWELL For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.
GEORGE ORWELL As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.
GEORGE ORWELL A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing ...
GEORGE ORWELL One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in ...
GEORGE ORWELL To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than othe...
GEORGE ORWELL War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit f...
GEORGE ORWELL All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are ...
GEORGE ORWELL The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
GEORGE ORWELL I've been to L.A. before, and I love the sunshine and the fact that people seem so genuinely nic...
HELEN GEORGE