"If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this."

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Spencer Silver

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“I really haven't made up my mind yet. A lot of people have encouraged me to consider running, and others have cautioned against it, saying it's a good way to ruin your life.”
“My point, once again, is not that those ancient people told literal stories and we are now smart enough to take them symbolically, but that they told them symbolically and we are now dumb enough to take them literally.”
“Basic dance--and I should qualify the word basic--is primarily concerned with motion. So immediately you will say but the basketball player is concerned with motion. That is so--but he is not concerned with it primarily. His action is a means towards an end beyond motion. In basic dance the motion is its own end--that is, it is concerned with nothing beyond itself.”
“Having good health, being able to breathe and be happy, that's one of the most beautiful gifts. On top of that, I have the gift to play music and make people happy through that. I'm just telling you from my heart, I'm so in love with life.”
“Advertising shouldn't be like medicine. It should be like candy.”
“I am convinced that China needs to be a strong trading partner with the United States long term.”
“I do know that the effect of the tremendous cutbacks on education that we're seeing are going to create a major problem for the country if we don't provide the opportunity to a huge swath of our society. These impacts are going to have an effect across national security, it's going to have an effect across our social services, and of course on the economy, in broad terms. So there is, I think, at least a level of concern that we ought to have at this point in our history.”
“Art is a weapon in the struggle of ideas, the class struggle.”

Source : "Art is a weapon in the struggle of ideas: interviewing amiri baraka". Interview With Sophie Erskine, www.3ammagazine.com.

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