- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rainbow Quotes
One symbol, read through several different lenses.
This collection treats the rainbow as more than weather, covering how astronomers read starlight as a spectrum and how the same image has become shorthand for a much broader range of identities and people. It's a small symbol carrying a lot of meaning. Related color themes live under Colors.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had already done Rainbow in Curved Air and had a big record on CBS. I was launched to have a long career and then I just dropped out and went to India.
- Blending
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- Nov 07, 2020
South Africa is labouring to find its revolutionary path; the colours of the Rainbow Nation have difficulty blending together; the wealthy elites (white, black or Indian) profit from de facto segregation.
- Decorator
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a good thing that when God created the rainbow he didn't consult a decorator or he would still be picking colors.
- Garden
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Leroy bet me I couldn't find a pot of gold at the end, and I told him that was a stupid bet because the rainbow was enough.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
And I asked my mother about it; I said, 'Is there something wrong?' She said, 'God... God makes people. You understand that, don't you?' And I said, 'Yeah!' She said, 'Who makes a rainbow?" I said, 'God.' She said, 'I never presumed to tell anyone who could make a rainbow what color to make children.'
- Moon
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- Nov 07, 2020
You thought the stage, you thought Broadway: that was the pot at the end of the rainbow. The idea of being in Hollywood was like going to the Moon or Mars.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live in a rainbow of chaos.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just making 'Black Rainbow' was like my minimum requirement before death, so that I could die with some honour and not in total shame.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black Rainbow' is about control and your emotions being repressed and controlled, and 'Mandy's' about all a volcanic eruption!
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think what I was unconsciously expressing in 'Black Rainbow' was a very abstract and metaphorical grief, in the way I had suppressed my grief about my mother dying. In retrospect I realise I started writing 'Mandy' as a sort of antidote to that, to sort of express those emotions, to purge that grief.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid I wasn't allowed to watch horror movies at all. And actually, one of the genesis points for 'Mandy' and 'Black Rainbow' was this memory I have of being in video stores, reading the backs of videos and looking at the art, imagining some kind of non-existent imaginary film based on that.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the primary ways that astronomers study stars is to spread their light out into a rainbow, which we call a spectrum, and from that rainbow, we can learn something about what the stars are composed of and how hot they are, how bright they are, and how they're moving, at least how they're moving toward or away from us.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
What a privilege to be here on the planet to contribute your unique donation to humankind. Each face in the rainbow of colors that populate our world is precious and special.
- Inspirational
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- Nov 07, 2020