Dikembe Mutombo Quotes
There are people out there dying every day, so when you wake up, you just have to thank the Man Upstairs for another day on this planet. There's not much else we can ask for.
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Trump wants to build a wall at the border of Mexico, while Clinton wants to tear down all walls.
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I now believe that major labels can only work with people who care more about fame and money than the quality of the art they produce.
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Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.
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I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end.
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When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.
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A lot of people I make music with are really talented and it doesn't stop at one instrument.
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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Stay true to your own voice, and don't worry about needing to be liked or what anybody else thinks. Keep your eyes on your own paper.
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I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.
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I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.
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Why I got into music was James Taylor, so to see him be a real down-to-earth guy that's unbelievably talented... then to hear him sing those lyrics of 'What I'm Thankful For,' which is a song Ms. Yearwood and I got to write together, that was definitely a highlight of my recording life.
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I'm very curious to know what it's like, death - I always say to my wife, 'I wonder if we'll have the 'New York Times' when we're dead.'
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I have a theory about that, if you have to say something, if you have encourage for one second a prospective acting student - he should not go in to acting.
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I'm a big fan of all those singing competition shows.
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I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.
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Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Like tattoos and marriage.
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I love voting day. I love the sight of my fellow citizens lining up to make their voices heard.
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A lot of people want to see this idealized version of heroism, all pretty and perfect, and I'm not interested in playing the goody-goody hero at all.
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This is a choice, ladies and gentleman, between Texas and Washington. Most of Ted Cruz's money comes from Washington, from outside the state of Texas, and they've run millions and millions of untrue ads against me.
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They say there are only two kinds of people on St. Patrick's Day: the Irish, and the people that drive them home.
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There are people out there dying every day, so when you wake up, you just have to thank the Man Upstairs for another day on this planet. There's not much else we can ask for.
