Bhumibol Adulyadej Quotes
I know things, but I shut my mouth. They don't want me to speak, so I don't speak.
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I think that's a weak excuse, to say because a rapper's getting older that he ain't got it no more. Nah. Don't go by that philosophy. Let's just recognize that talent is within.
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I've had those people very interested in my writing. Since I think of myself as a composer, I feel really good. I've had lots of guys call me up. I've gotten two or three commissions to write things. I've written lots of movie scores.
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For me, take Tiger Woods. I always thought he was great, but I never truly understood how good he was until I had the chance to go to Tiger Woods Golf Camp. He taught me how to swing and was hitting the ball, and this dude was unreal.
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The less I talk about being black, the better.
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If everybody is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going exactly in the opposite direction.
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Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
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When I'm in professional mode, I do the best job that I can.
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I've always been singing all my life, but I started playing guitar when I was 19, and that was my final year in university, in law school. I think that happened when I started making a lot of friends who were in the independent music scene.
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When you get your opportunities, you've just got to go with what they said... I'll do what's necessary wherever they put me.
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Yes, actually ever since I saw his films and tried to write about them, Sirk's been in everything I've done. Not Sirk himself, but what I've learned from his work.
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A mature society understands that at the heart of democracy is argument.
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I believe that life is short, and there is too much time wasted bearing grudges, and I like to move on.
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I'm a born athlete. Weight-lifting is in my blood. I used to do the powerlifting thing. I gained a little weight, but I still got it; I'm mad built.
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Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
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I tried to write 'Trainspotting' in standard English, but people weren't talking like that.
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Why limit yourself? I feel like I can do anything.
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I speak from a nerd's perspective because I've been watching anime since I was a kid. I grew up on 'Speed Racer' and 'Star Blazers' and 'Battle of the Planets,' and those were some of my first A) cartoons and B) introduction to Japanese couture before I even knew they were Japanese.
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The Victorian language of flowers began with the publication of 'Le Language des Fleurs,' written by Charlotte de Latour and printed in Paris in 1819. To create the book - which was a list of flowers and their meanings - de Latour gathered references to flower symbolism throughout poetry, ancient mythology, and even medicine.
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The fire you rubbed left its brand on the most vulnerable, most vicious and tender point of my body. Now I have to pay for your rasping the red rash too strongly, too soon, as charred wood has to pay for burning. When I remain without your caresses, I lose all control of my nerves, nothing exists any more than the ecstasy of friction, the abiding effect of your sting, of your delicious poison.
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If you go through life looking for insults, you may be comfortably assured of finding them.
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I've always written songs since I was a kid - always.
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The development of a political-economic framework to explore long-run institutional change occupied me during all of the 1980s and led to the publication of Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance in 1990.
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I know things, but I shut my mouth. They don't want me to speak, so I don't speak.
