"You run into stereotypes so that the stereotype filters who you are and what you do, and having to deal with that was the most frustrating thing for me."

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Pauline Oliveros

#Running Quotes #Filters Quotes #Stereotype Quotes

“M: Is he smart I: She yes very smart sees right through me M: In my day we valued blindness rather more”
“It is only in a very quiet mind that great things are born; and a quiet mind does not come about through effort, through control, through discipline.”
“I'm definitely not the most graceful person out there. I've always been taught to play hard. I don't know how not to play hard. But for some guys it just looks easier. For me, it's not that natural.”
“The name Air Supply sort of came from nowhere. I get a lot of my things in dreams and I just had a dream about it one night, and I woke up and said that's just got to be the name. That was in 1975.”
“When there is a respect for small things, there will be an even greater respect towards the bigger things. When there is no respect for small things, then neither will there be for the bigger ones. This is how the Fathers maintained Tradition.”
“Something has to matter. Otherwise, a person's life will be miserable and empty.”
“The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness... Unfortunately, many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing.”
“A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.”

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