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 term 'personal ambition' immediately puts me off. It feels like finding a sliver of onion in my ice cream. There's nothing wrong with a sliver of onion, but I don't want it in my ice cream.
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My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought a quality education. People have these expectations of who they think you should be. And I say it's because they don't really understand Malcolm X - or his wife.
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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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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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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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I spent 250 to 300 days of every year on the road. But in the end, I felt something was missing. I needed to be anchored so I could concentrate, so in 2000, I established a new methodology - the one I use today. I spent the week in my office and travelled every weekend, even at Christmas.
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I'm not trying to be something that I'm not, and I think a lot of people can relate to that. They want something that's real, and I think I give that to them.
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On the surface, humans appear to hate conflict, but in reality, they seek it.
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Annie Lee Smith was my mother's name. My father's name was George Washington Smith. I have to tell you, I got all of my attributes from them, obviously, the tangibles, the intangibles. Particularly my work ethic, my dedication.
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Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.
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My father was a very disciplined singer who worked hard at his craft, and I was around that growing up.
