Keith Matthew Thornton (Kool Keith) Quotes
I always buy something to make myself motivated. It's good to feel that you can buy something and motivate yourself. That's what I do, just buy stuff. I like to buy something new and then record.
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I always tell my children, 'You have to face your fear. If not, it's like running from a dog that will bite you in the back.'
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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We have this idea that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.
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I always loved all kinds of music. I would watch musicals a lot as a kid, on TV, watch the Fred Astaire movies. I'd watch 'The Wizard of Oz.' I was a big Jerry Lewis fan, and they'd have these big bands and someone singing - some siren, or some guy singing some gorgeous song. I was always enamored of that style of music.
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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I don't hide my being Israeli. I say it in every interview. I put out a record with songs in Hebrew. The people who signed me have no connection to Judaism or Israel.
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I have a 'Mailer-Breslin and the 51st State' poster, and a neon-pink sign of Raoul's in SoHo, one of my favorite restaurants.
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Pregnancy is something that I always love. It's about hope and the future and a new baby.
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I get more fulfilment from being a father than I do from being an actor.
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The U.S. should support the Nigerian government to stay in Sierra Leone under the ECOMOG umbrella. The U.S. should also support other countries, including Ghana, in ECOMOG until stability is established.
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'Pathological liar' is absolutely the toughest individual to deal with as a psychiatrist. Because you can't take anything they say at face value. And you can't, you know, fill in their personality. You don't know what's real and what's not.
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I'm an atheist. I don't 'believe' at all.
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We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
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I'm not very good with stills. I get all twitchy.
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Anywhere in life, for girls there's pressure to keep your weight and to keep yourself feeling and looking good.
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That's a comic cover's job: Attract someone's attention and persuade them to try the issue out.
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The reality is, if you were fortunate to be born to rich parents, you have a better chance of succeeding in life. And that's wrong.
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Traveling is the worst for skin, and it shows instantly. Once you're working non-stop, you can instantly see it.
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I have good anticipation, and good reaction to the the ball because I've played so many matches in my life.
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I was schooled at home, then didn't go to university because I married when I was 17. I didn't go into work until late in my life.
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It was bad, but it was some other slightly less piquant flavour of bad.
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I like staying here very much, as I feel at home in Dortmund.
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I always buy something to make myself motivated. It's good to feel that you can buy something and motivate yourself. That's what I do, just buy stuff. I like to buy something new and then record.
