Sly Stone Quotes
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I love fashion as an art; I love fashion as costume, as a character. I don't like dictates and the phoniness of appearance.
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I am a Buddhist.
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I definitely try to eat a healthy diet, but I am the first person to say I love unhealthy food. I would never tell you I don't. I love fried chicken or mac and cheese. Do I order them all the time when I'm out at restaurants? No, though I do have one splurge meal a week.
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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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You'll be fooled if you only get your hip-hop from the mainstream, you know. The things that move people are not just found in the mainstream cultures. And when we talk about hip-hop in general, hip-hop's basically preoccupied with life.
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How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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I had to create some good work habits and attitude.
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We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
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I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose.
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In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.
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I would love to work with the great movie actors of our time.
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I work with some of the funniest writers in the country.
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As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.
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Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.
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I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.
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In a universe that's an intelligent system with a divine creative force supporting it, there simply can be no accidents. As tough as it is to acknowledge, you had to go through what you went through in order to get to where you are today, and the evidence is that you did.
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There are stereotypes that have been out there for a long time that tell girls that their main asset, the main thing that they are valued for, is their appearance and also that it's to the exclusion of anything else.
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Housing is a social issue: how we live and where we live.
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But what was interesting about what the Who did is that we took things which were happening in the pop genre and represent them to people so that they see them in a new way. I think the best example is Andy Warhol's work, the image of Marilyn Monroe or the Campbell's soup can.
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There's never been a better time to change the way you think. Replace every 'I can't' with 'How can I?' It might sound like semantics, but I promise it will bring whatever you want to accomplish much closer to becoming a reality.
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I'm tired of malicious articles slandering me.
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As an individual, I think you have to find your own path. I like the simplicity and purity of Hinduism and many elements of Buddhism. These are all means of accessing spiritual energy.
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Time needs another minute.
