Bobby McFerrin Quotes
It's not that I don't love the song. My songs are like my children: some you want around and some you want to send off to college as soon as possible.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.
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Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.
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For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people.
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I had this little Bon Iver phase a few years back; 'Flume' was one of my favourite songs.
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If I can put it together, I've got an opportunity to win.
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I get along very well with animals and children. I dig them, I get them.
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I almost got a psychology degree, I almost got a philosophy degree. I kept changing it so they couldn't make me graduate. I studied anthropology and eastern religion, epistomology, and astronomy... I took every interesting course I could find for nine years.
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Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life.
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When James Bond gets old, you get rid of him and bring a new James Bond in.
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Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical. Reading it uncritically, without understanding the cultural and historical setting of the text, leaves us forced to accept scientific and sociological norms of the ancient Near East from 3,000 years ago.
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Some people like having eyes upon them and I don't.
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Of course, a movie is in constant flux.
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I still feel I need to do things 10 times better than other players. Just to be accepted and to improve myself.
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Too often, campaigns are all flash and no substance.
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Bullies always have another target.
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That's one of the great things about comedy: we can - and should - say the things that other people aren't supposed to say. If we didn't do that, if we didn't push against those limits, we'd just be standing around onstage and yelling.
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Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present.
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Sometimes I want to party, sometimes I want to fight and sometimes I want to cry.
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But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.
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I know I don't go looking for directors. I always wonder why they chose me.
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My parents believed in exposing each of their children to an abundance of varied activities in the hope they would find something they loved. They each had found a passion - Dad with his music and Mom with her horses - so it was natural for them to encourage experimentation.
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It doesn't really change, actually. I think The Rolling Stones have gotten a lot better. An awful lot better, I think. A lot of people don't, but I think they have, and to me that's gratifying. It's worth it.
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It's not that I don't love the song. My songs are like my children: some you want around and some you want to send off to college as soon as possible.
