Sly Stone Quotes
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I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
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We can build the fence. We can triple the border patrol. We can end sanctuary cities by cutting off funding to them. We can end welfare for those here illegally.
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Younger audiences are into me because I did 'Stuart Little,' and that movie was a very big deal for kids. And in 'Angels in the Outfield,' a generation of kids learned about magic and angels. And then, of course, there are these two blond girls named Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, and I played their nanny on their TV show.
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If you want to get your point across, you gotta cuss.
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I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.
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I'll keep doing my training and I'm sure the goals will come.
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Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.
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Being a recognised face has its problems. I miss the freedom to go anywhere I want to.
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I've stayed calm when I'm winning and I've stayed calm when I've lost. Tennis is a sport where we have a lot of tournaments every week, so you can't celebrate a lot when you have big victories, and you cannot get too down when you're losing, as in a few days you'll be in the next tournament and you'll have to be ready with that.
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Like every audition I go on, I do my best, but after that, I let it go because, you know, the rejection rate is so great in Hollywood, and I can only control what I do in the audition, and after that it's up to somebody else.
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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
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I keep my house tidy, because then I can think clearly. I feel the same about myself. Presenting yourself well is a working-class thing - my dad was a printer, but he wore a tie most days. The ungroomed look belongs more to the middle classes.
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America always pivots between collective responsibility and the idea that the individual can pull himself up by his bootstraps.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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I love the ocean, but I'm just not one to lie on the beach.
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Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.
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One of the most interesting social trends of the past 20 years is the rise of residential segregation. So rich are living with rich and poor are living with poor.
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I always give RZA that support as far as saying he brought Wu-Tang to the table. It was his philosophy. He picked certain dudes to be part of this group, and he said, 'This is what it's going to be called.'
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We plan to spend 20 billion lari ($12 billion) from the budget in the next four years on implementation of all tasks presented in our new programme.
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And thus I came through storm to peace, not to the peace of an untroubled sea of outer life, which no strong soul can crave, but to an inner peace that outer troubles may not avail to ruffle-a peace which belongs to the eternal not to the transitory, to the depths not to the shallows of life.
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Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the Me for the We.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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I finally bought a gun because I said if I'm going to get it, I'm taking somebody with me.
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Was on my last leg, I couldn't even borrow my friend's extra peg.
