Bobby McFerrin Quotes
My father was a very disciplined singer who worked hard at his craft, and I was around that growing up.

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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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At first, I found the music I was making really hard to find a home for. I felt like my attitude was really British, but not the actual sounds I was making. Back in 2003, when I made 'Galang,' there were no clubs that had an 'anything and everything' attitude.
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Spare no expense to save money on this one.
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First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
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I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year.
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Political stories in general are tough. They just don't appeal to as wide an audience.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.
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Crankiness is a human attribute that, when people walk in the door of Xerox, they remain human. The best way to get the best out of people is to not force them to be something other than they naturally are. Now what do they have to be? They have to be respectful. You can't be ridiculously disrespectful.
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Basketball is in my blood. It is my obligation to try.
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You want a career? Do that first. You don't want to have kids? Then don't. You don't want to get married? Then don't. But once you do something, you've got to know that there is compromise.
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I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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The first week Banks was with us, we knew he was going to be a star.
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The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.
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I don't know if this classifies as a video game, but I have a terrible obsession with Angry Birds.
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Go to the young conductors who are not making it, and you will hear how we shouldn't push ourselves or sell ourselves, how they don't have the right connections and the right opportunities. Well, you can be sure they've had the opportunities.
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'Orange Is the New Black' and 'Sense8' have enjoyed great success all over the world.
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I just do what I do. I like to make music.
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In many ways, our campaign this year will be the same as last time: We're still going to focus on fixing up basics and cleaning up ethics at City Hall.
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I had the honor of speaking with Asimov. The album ended up being something not directly related to Asimov, but related instead to the concept of the power of robotics.
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My father was a very disciplined singer who worked hard at his craft, and I was around that growing up.