Legends Quotes - Page 11

• Today the children of our public schools are taught more of the history, heroes, legends, and sagas of the old world than of the land of their birth, while they are furnished with little material on the people and institutions that are truly American.

  Luther Standing Bear

  Children, Hero, School

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• We can teach about hip-hop history, we can teach about legends, hip-hop theory. It's been around so long that text books can be written about it. This is a perfect time to capitalize on and get kids excited about music education.

  Kanye West

  Book, Kids, Long

  Interview with DJ Booth, djbooth.net.

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• Stick to the script like paper clips and coffee stains, Never let a seed of doubt deter you from your lofty aims, The will is much stronger than the flesh, And it only gets stronger when you going through duress, Imagination is the factory that makes legends... Close Your Eyes and dream B.I.G. like Faith Evans.

  Jay Electronica

  Dream, Coffee, Rap

  "Close Your Eyes". Song by Jay Electronica, Lucy Liu and The Bullitts, April 2011.

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• In any open question, we should argue from what we do know to what we do not know. We do know that fervent legends and stubborn myths arise easily and naturally. We do not know that dead people rise from the grave.

  Dan Barker

  People, Religion, Stubborn

  Dan Barker, Richard Dawkins (2008). “Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists”, p.299, Ulysses Press

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• Rev Run is a living legend of Hip-Hop, who's still making great music, but now he's also the dad to an amazing family, ... This series takes us inside his world. It's a kind of a reality 'Father Knows Best' with comedy, heart, Hip-Hop and drama-all under one roof at Run's House.

  Tony DiSanto

  Running, Dad, Father

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• Every human being has a personal legend to be fulfilled, and this is our reason for being in the world. This personal legend manifests itself in our enthusiasm for the task.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Tasks

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• One can abandon one's personal legend for a time, as long as one does not forget about it entirely and returns to it as soon as possible.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Long

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• He accepts his Personal Legend completely.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Personal Legend

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• The glory of the world is transitory, and we should not measure our lives by it, but by the choice we make to follow our personal legend, to believe in our utopias, and to fight for our dreams.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Dream, Believe

  "The Alchemy of Pilgrimage". "On Being" with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. August 14, 2014.

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• The closer you get to your dream, the more your personal legend becomes your real reason for living.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Dream, Real

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• Love will never separate a man from his personal legend.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Men

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• There is only one legend. That's me

  Roberto Duran

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• Everybody says it: black, white; everybody calls me a legend. Italians, Jews. Everybody

  Roberto Duran

  White, Black, Call Me

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• To be a legend, you generally had to be dead.

  Nalini Singh

  Nalini Singh (2009). “Angels' Blood”, p.35, Penguin

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• When I was younger, I always dreamed of being a legend, to be remembered in figure skating.

  Michelle Kwan

  Skating, Figures, Remembered

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We usually say that you cannot become a legend before death. But I am a living legend

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic

  Before Death, Living Legends

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• Sometimes reality is too complex for oral communication. But legend embodies it in a form which enables it to spread all over the world.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Communication, Reality, World

  "Alphaville". www.imdb.com. 1965.

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• The legends of fieldwork locate all important sites deep in inaccessible jungles inhabited by fierce beasts and restless natives, and surrounded by miasmas of putrefaction and swarms of tsetse flies.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Important, Fierce, Beast

  Stephen Jay Gould (1990). “Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History”, p.65, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I’m going to check the world’s best source for spawning new urban legends, the Internet. What, you thought I couldn’t even type? The Web is just another threshold between one world and another.

  Nalo Hopkinson

  Urban Legends, World, Internet

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• My first big break came with Lauryn Hill on a track called Everything is Everything, I played piano on that track way back in 1998.

  John Legend

  Piano, Track, Way

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• Now that I'm coming out with my own record people can see I'm a solo artist.

  John Legend

  Artist, People, Records

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• The world has lost a legend, and I have lost a friend. Johnny Cash was the rare soul who could be both.

  Emmylou Harris

  Music, Soul, World

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• So, the world happens twice--
  once what we see it as;
  second it legends itself
  deep, the way it is.

  William Stafford

  World, Way, Happens

  William Stafford (2014). “Ask Me: 100 Essential Poems of William Stafford”, p.87, Macmillan

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• All cities are geological; you cannot take three steps without encountering ghosts bearing all the prestige of their legends. We move within a closed landscape whose landmarks constantly draw us toward the past. Certain shifting angles, certain receding perspectives, allow us to glimpse original conceptions of space, but this vision remains fragmentary. It must be sought in the magical locales of fairy tales and surrealist writings: castles, endless walls, little forgotten bars, mammoth caverns, casino mirrors.

  Ivan Chtcheglov

  Wall, Moving, Writing

  Guy Debord, Ivan Chtcheglov, Asger Jorn, Raoul Vaneigem, Mustapha Khayati (2014). “Situationism: A Compendium”, p.5, Bread and Circuses Publishing

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• Whatever obstacle comes your way, you gotta be prepared to jump over it! And I think that's what separates the legends from the regular artists. It's all in how you manage that success, and how you deal with the controversy when it actually comes.

  Akon

  Thinking, Artist, Way

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