"People's real hopes and dreams can be distorted……" — Tracy Chapman
"People's real hopes and dreams can be distorted and misdirected and packaged until you're not sure what you really want or what you even really need."
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55 Quotes by Tracy Chapman
Tracy Chapman has 55 quotes on this site.
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We have more media than ever and more technology in our lives. It's supposed to help us communicate, but it…
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Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I…
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We all must live our lives always feeling, always thinking the moment has arrived.
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Some things remain fragments, just the lyrics and melodies or a line or two or a verse.
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I dressed up as a veterinarian for a Halloween costume party. I had the lab coat. I got a couple…
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A lot of kids spent more time out of school than in, but I always loved school and thought it…
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I picked up the guitar at 11, but even before then, I was writing songs on the organ.
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I think it's important, if you are an artist, to use your music to stand up for what you believe…
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As a child I always had a sense of social conditions and political situations. I think it had to do…
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Growing up in Cleveland, I learned about singing from my mother, who had once sung professionally and who admired Mahalia…
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When you feel like you've had a good show, you go backstage and you talk to yourself about it, and…
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Have faith in humankind a respect for what is earthly and an unfaltering belief in peace and understanding
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More Distorted Quotes
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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of…
— John Bradshaw
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Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early…
— John Henrik Clarke
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There hasn't been anybody whose life has been picked apart and distorted as much as mine.
— Hillary Clinton
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Our attitude determines how we evaluate our life's experiences. They determine how we evaluate ourselves. They also govern how we…
— Dallin H. Oaks
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Most of us think we don't have enough time to exercise. What a distorted paradigm! We don't have time not…
— Stephen Covey
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Walking the spiritual path properly is a very subtle process; it is not something to jump into naively. There are…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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If his spirit is distorted he should simply fix it-purge it, make it perfect-because there is no other task in…
— Carlos Castaneda
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Politicians, real-estate agents, used-car salesmen, and advertising copy-writers are expected to stretch facts in self-serving directions, but scientists who falsify…
— Martin Gardner
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I experimented with all possible maneuvers-loops, somersaults and barrel rolls. I stood upside down on one finger and burst out…
— Jacques Yves Cousteau
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In a man's letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirror of his breast,…
— Samuel Johnson
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But if we laugh with derision, we will never understand. Human intellectual capacity has not altered for thousands of years…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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