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Creativity Quote by Holly Near

“My creativity and my political work are linked. I don't…” quote by Holly Near — Download Open image

“My creativity and my political work are linked. I don't do this work out of guilt or out of responsibility.”

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When the students were killed at Kent State, the cast voted to do a demonstration from the stage, and I abstained.

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All my life I have gone out on a limb, but I have turned the limb into a bridge, and there is cool, clear…

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You can't just leave out one part; the bread won't rise if the yeast isn't there.

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My parents had been involved in the labor movement; if we'd grown up in the city, we would have been red-diaper babies.

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Whenever new ideas emerge, songs soon follow, and before long the songs are leading.

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A lot of artists say, I'm not political. People are afraid of this word.

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In less than a century we experienced great movement. The youth movement! The labor movement! The civil rights movement! The peace movement! The solidarity…

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Peace can start with just one heart.

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Music can be used against us as much as it can be used for us. Muzak can put a whole nation to sleep, whereas…

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I like this life. I like it when it's hard, and I like it better when it's not, but I know you don't get…

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Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?

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Time has passed through me and become a song.

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The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does…

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That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

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“The Soviet “creative intelligentsia” - that is, people accustomed to thinking one thing, saying another and doing a third - is as a whole…

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It’s so important to create in your own voice, to hold onto what makes you unique, and have faith in your vision.

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A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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You don't get lucky. You create lucky.

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By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological…

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“You are the end of beauty and creativity one must have created so far.”

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Jonah Lehrer is one of the most talented explainers of science that we’ve got. What a pleasure it is to follow his investigation of…

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If you've got creativity, imagination, and intelligence, and you want to be hypnotised, then there's no reason you shouldn't be able to.

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“I believe in magic. As a writer, I create them on blank paper.”

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Creativity is like chasing chickens.

Christoph Niemann

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