Howard Bailey Jr. (Chingy) Quotes
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The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
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I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me.
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Filming '24' is just like watching '24.'
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My goal is people associate November with COPD awareness month as much as they notice October with breast cancer and pink. That'd be a great thing if it happened. The fact that COPD kills more people than breast cancer and diabetes put together should raise some red flags.
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Hungry people almost never have to be pushed by a manager to work harder, because they are self-motivated and diligent. They are constantly thinking about the next step and the next opportunity. And they loathe the idea that they might be perceived as slackers.
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Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.
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The way we're attached to our phones these days, they buzz and twitch in our pockets, and we have to look and see if it was a text, a voicemail, or an e-mail. We're almost like lab rats. I tried to eschew the whole cell phone theory until I had kids; then, I had to be reachable at all times.
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And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.
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And it wasn't until '84 when I was first asked to come to Sweden and do an album and concert tour.
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Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.
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I was not a great guitarist, so I sold my 1960 Fender Stratocaster in exchange for a Shure Microphone, made in Chicago, and a flute.
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People say McGregor is tall and all that. He's as tall as I am, or maybe even shorter. He might have a longer reach, but I've fought Nate Diaz and Cerrone, who had reach advantage, and fought Anthony Pettis and Ben Henderson.
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But if we ask where precisely in the brain that point of view is located, the simple assumptions that work so well on larger scales of space and time break down. It is now quite clear that there is no single point in the brain where all information funnels in, and this fact has some far from obvious consequences.
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The way you get a better world is, you don’t put up with substandard anything.
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All I am certain of right now is that I don't want to go anywhere, and that's not bad for someone who always used to run.
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Men always tell such silly lies.
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The Chinese government only superficially speaks the language of the international community.
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A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance - you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.
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I've noticed that, with many of the authors I like, I tend to think I would dislike them as human beings or that there'd be a healthy amount of debate if I ever did meet them.
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I think book adaptations, the best one to me is like 'Brokeback Mountain.' Which is a short story, 21 pages, that expands so beautifully into a movie.
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In the end, our minds and their ability to create new ideas are the ultimate source of all human wealth. That's a resource nearly without limit.
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It must be a hellish thing to know what's possible in music, to be hearing things all the time and not have an appropriate outlet for them.
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In primary schools, I set two main objectives - to cut infant class sizes and improve literacy and numeracy.
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You didn't eat some days for two days you didn't eat properly.
