Dennis Brown Quotes
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I didn't know I wanted to act until it was around 21. I had just come back to Los Angeles after two and half years of traveling and working as a dancer and singer and was looking for a new performing art to study. I started taking acting classes and fell in love.
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Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
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We will all be gone one day. Not as a negative thing - as a positive thing, too, you know, and we should leave something behind ourselves.
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I started playing bluegrass with my family, so there were the G, C and D chords. I was playing a Martin acoustic because that's what Carter Stanley of the Stanley Brothers played. Then I got into the really raw blues of Hound Dog Taylor and started on electric guitar.
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Apart from the intrinsic interest of the complex system of beliefs the Puritans carried with them, their lives give a clue to what it meant at the beginning to be American. And the level of scholarship dealing with them has reached a point where it can address the human condition itself.
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The songs I love to sing are story songs, from Yiddish songs to Tom Waits.
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Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
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In a well-functioning democracy, citizens have the option of voting their political masters out of office. Not so in most companies.
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Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
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I'm sellin this shit, I ain't tellin this shit, I'm a mutha fuckin 2-time felon ya bitch From the cold hearted streets of the LBC To a mansion in the south down the street from my nigga P See, real niggas recognize the realness Put ya muthafuckin' choppers up if ya feel this.
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Signature film-making seems rather dull to me; it's about finding something you can do something with and running with the ball.
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Natural Selection never made it come to pass, as a habit of nature, that an unsupported stone should move downwards rather than upwards. It applies to no part of inorganic nature, and is very limited even in the phenomena of organic life.
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The year was 1882. The palace was the Luxembourg Palace: the ball, the Senat Bal, held at the beginning of autumn. It was still warm, and so the garden was used as well. I was the soprano. I was Lilliet Berne.
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Giorgio Morandi's paintings make me think that artists may not totally choose, or even control, their subjects or style.
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On 'Sufferer,' I'm talking about the younger generation that has no other option for success than to find a gun somewhere. I try to appeal to them: 'I know you a sufferer, but it doesn't mean that you can't or shouldn't expect any better.' It's a lot different than from what I usually say, like, 'Get busy, shake that thing.'
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I didn't want my last chapter to be the guy who sits at the piano and sings love songs.
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I'm more relaxed when I can hear the beat clearly all the time I'm singing.
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The people who make policy decisions should damned well know what they are talking about before they make the decisions. There is nobody who is an expert on cloning who would be afraid after seeing Attack of the Clones.
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If you're not making mistakes, you're not taking risks, and that means you're not going anywhere. The key is to make mistakes faster than the competition, so you have more changes to learn and win.
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All I am looking for is a fine combination of critical and commercial acclaim. Whether conventional or unconventional - does not matter.
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We sing inspirational songs, songs of praise and worship, and about how good and how big God is. We are magnifying the Lord.
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I'm wide open and will entertain anything anybody has to say, but if it's MTV and radio, well, they're great things, but can't be the only thing. I don't know that it would work even for the Beatles.
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Our greatest problems in life come not so much from the situations we confront as from our doubts about our ability to handle them.
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You know, we had that groove; I didn't feel no way.
