Robert Dwayne Womack (Bobby Womack) Quotes
When I was a kid, during those days, you couldn't use instruments. It was against the pastor's religion, so all the singers would make these instruments with their voices. It was just unbelievable. I couldn't explain it.
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I think artists are really the root of a tree. They can search for truth or reality in their own way, and the gallery can support them - the outside part of the tree, where it is more about reaching the outside world, connecting with the outside world. That is the role of the gallery, no? Why does the artist have to do that?
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I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigorous debate.
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Honestly, you have to take care of yourself. That's probably something I have learned on the road.
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I'm not to be confused with Natasha Henstridge in 'Species,' where I just emerge out of the weird alien womb looking amazing. I really rely heavily on my black outfits and my gold chains to give me sort of a thing.
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I feel that good fantasy will always be in demand. I think children especially need literature that helps them escape from the real world, which is very scary to them right now.
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When you're No. 1 or No. 300, you still get to play and write the songs.
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I do get most of the harder-to-get stories.
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I didn't really know you could make a living in songwriting. I was just very fortunate to have the opportunity to play a few songs for a guy there named Jimmy Ritchey. Through that meeting, I met another couple guys and ended up getting a publishing deal in Nashville.
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I would like to say that I was inspired to write 'Shiver' by some overwhelming belief in true love, but here's my true confession: I wrote 'Shiver' because I like to make people cry.
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I am surprised by how not-adopted the video reply has been. What keeps other people from doing it, I think, is that they think a video comes across as 'I'm cool, look at how many e-mails I get.' That perception doesn't scare me, because I know who I am.
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I think of myself as somebody who, in a moment-to-moment way, I'm quite happy. But I think I am a bit doubtful and wary of true happiness, and, like a lot of my friends, there's been a good degree of self-sabotage.
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For the first time in 6,000 years of human history, we can have peer-to-peer exchange where trust is not a problem anymore. And it's through the technology that underlies bitcoin. It's called the block chain.
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Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.
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I know you're all saying I can go to the moon but I can't find Pasadena.
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I love the stage - the fact that you only have one take to get it right, the interaction with the audience, and how every show is different even though you're doing the same thing.
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I've been crazy lucky that I've never had a day job. I get really close to having no money, then I always wind up getting some kind of great job.
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In the end, the Foreign Ministry had no power at all to do anything.
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When you start out, you have to make compromises, which include doing films of lower quality.
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The values my mother taught me were like, if you're going to do something, don't half-ass it. I remember her literally saying that to me. Like the first time I ever heard the term half-ass was coming from my mother's lips. I was probably 8 or 9. If you're going to do something, go ahead and throw 115 percent at it, and if you get 100 percent back, well, there you go - you're perfect.
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When you hit a plateau you have to be willing to get a little bit worse before you get massively better.
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Papa Roach are not just going to take tours just to take tours.
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I am never sure that anything's good enough. Something that is good today will not be good tomorrow.
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Being brought up in a culture is a matter of learning appropriate forms of feeling as much as particular ways of thinking.
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When I was a kid, during those days, you couldn't use instruments. It was against the pastor's religion, so all the singers would make these instruments with their voices. It was just unbelievable. I couldn't explain it.
