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- I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping.
- My job is not done. I address my songs now to the third world. I am popular all over Asia and Africa and the Middle…
- Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking. . . . the new inventive…
- I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don't think the black people are going to rise at all;…
- I am particular about the seating of the audience - also about how much money they pay - but most of all where they are…
- The worst thing about that kind of prejudice... is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you…
- I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle