Sampha Quotes
For me, when I'm writing something really personal, I don't feel good about it. It's weird that people can connect to it and like something that came from a really crap place. You have to be quite brave to write about something that you honestly feel and think.
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
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I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.
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It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
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I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
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People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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One of my favorite episodes was the one in which Homer grew hair. That was a very unique episode, since there was a gay secretary, but that wasn't even the issue of the show-the issue was Homer's image changing because he had hair.
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In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
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The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848.
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Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
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You can't be preachy - kids are allergic to messages.
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I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I'm actually not like that at all.
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I've got a 1990 Porsche 911. It's just a Carrera, a very simple, straightforward little thing that goes like stink. I love it.
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After the events of the 20th century, God, quite reasonably, left Europe. But He's still here in the United States.
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The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
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I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
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I see that I have, as part of my stock in trade, a very regal personality and carriage. I see that I have a kind of strength, a kind of command, and a kind of power that one would associated with a monarch.
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I know that I'm a role model for a lot of people, and I'd like to be. I know that there are people who probably don't agree with how I think or how I see myself and my place in this world. That's OK.
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And Barry Levinson is insanely funny. I don't know if you know this, not everyone does, but he and Craig T. Nelson were a comedy team back in the coffeehouse days of the late '60s.
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I love making people laugh. It's an addiction and it's probably dysfunctional, but I am addicted to it and there's no greater pleasure for me than sitting in a theater and feeling a lot of people losing control of themselves.
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My mom is one of those people that you feel honored to meet. And no matter who you are, you fall in love with her because she is spiritual, she's inspiring, she's strong, she's funny, she's creative, she's talented... she's everything that I want to be.
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For me, when I'm writing something really personal, I don't feel good about it. It's weird that people can connect to it and like something that came from a really crap place. You have to be quite brave to write about something that you honestly feel and think.
