Desmond Dekker Quotes
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Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.
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We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.
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I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
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The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
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Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.
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Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.
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It's enough to make a small shift within and a small action in the world. Collectively these have a huge effect.
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If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
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I don't particularly get nervous about anything.
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Open-source encyclopedias such as Wikipedia and search engines such as Google and Bing, which people can tap into anytime and anywhere via computers and smart phones, put a world of knowledge at our fingertips at a lower cost than ever before.
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When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.
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The Chinese are brought up to believe that you should be silent in class. The teacher speaks, and you just listen and absorb what they say.
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When you encourage others, you in the process are encouraged because you're making a commitment and difference in that person's life. Encouragement really does make a difference.
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It's really hard not to fall into that trap of insecurity when you're a model. Beforehand, I never looked at myself in a huge monitor with 30 people around it every day.
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I also care that the public are getting their 12 dollars worth when they go to a movie, and that they're not coming out not wanting to ever see a movie with me in it again. I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.
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The American Negro has no conception of the hundreds of millions of other non-whites' concern for him: he has no conception of their feeling of brotherhood for and with him.
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You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.
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The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken.
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What I love is acting, and the technical stuff does tend to slow things down.
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I'm never satisfied with what I do. I always think I can do it a lot better.
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As I remember it, the bases were loaded.
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My mother sent me to speech classes, but the other kids still teased me. I was shy. I stooped. Instead of talking, I kept journals. That's where my love of words comes from. I majored in journalism.
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Then my mother was taken ill and died and my father took me to St. Mary's.
