"Then, when I had the opportunity to go to Africa and visit the villages, I heard the real, raw, true rhythms and realised the origins of the old Negro spirituals I grew up with in the South."

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Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Isaac Hayes

#Real Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Village Quotes

“I casually listen to mixes, but I don't know all the names of the tunes and the producers and stuff. It's hard to keep up with.”

Source : Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. March 15, 2011.
“I'm a very conceptual writer.”
“Bill Russell was my favorite player of all-time.”
“If you keep at it long enough, one day you may witness some greater disturbance, some rushing breach of the water's surface so startling and violent and exhilarating that you too will suddenly, and always thereafter, believe in monsters.”

Source : Paul Schullery, Marsha Karle (2013). “The Fishing Life: An Angler's Tales of Wild Rivers and Other Restless Metaphors”, p.14, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
“We looked at each other, and I could see in those big reddened eyes that he was not going to scream. He was full of anger - and who could blame him? - but he was no fool. He needed me, and he wanted me here, if only to insult me.”
“I was running the risk in Adventureland, even though we stayed close to the script, because I wanted it to be not a schematic movie. For better or worse, it's not a wish-fulfillment movie. It's got a kind of happy ending, but it's not like I forgot to put on the "Ten years later," and they've got four kids and a dog. Those guys are not together today. It always was leading up to the moment of "Oh, I have my first girlfriend." Credits.”
“Modern allopathic medicine is the only major science stuck in the pre-Einstein era.”
“Sometimes grief is a comfort we grant ourselves because it's less terrifying than trying for joy. Nobody wants to admit it. We'd all declare we want to be happy, if we could. So why, then, is pain the one thing we most often hold on to? Why are slights and griefs the memories on which we choose to dwell? Is it because joy doesn't last but grief does?”

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