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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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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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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If reggae comes from another country, you can have the relationship to reggae that I have to rock. But it's something I grew up with. It's probably something I appreciate more now. In the '80s, I was all about New Wave and synth pop - New Order and Depeche Mode and Eurythmics and Michael Jackson and tons and tons and tons of Prince.
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The fact that I was black and desirous to do my work, the other kids would call me a coconut, as if I were somehow attempting to be white. The bullying was real: I'd get punched, spat at, terrible things.
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Not every script that rolls in is ready to shoot. Few are, actually. So you go back and work on the thing.
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You don't want to give kids an idea that they might not have thought of.
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If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.
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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.
