Bootsy Collins Quotes
But I'm always trying to plan ahead too and in doing so, and in working on this album, I've met a lot people that I hope to be involved with, on their records and in their situations.
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The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.
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Music seems hard-wired into our very being. It moves us, stirs us to action, sets us in motion, sticks in our memories and minds.
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A lot of guys try to mingle with me because of who I am. If I encounter a guy with a clean heart, I will go by my instincts. I guess my man won't be from the film industry.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage.
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More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.
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The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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I've always been honest with my fans, and I want to keep that up because I feel they can see through the fakeness.
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Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.
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I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.
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I learned long ago on the battlefields of Vietnam that in a crisis, there is no substitute for clear-eyed leadership.
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I'm really not tailored for responsibility.
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'A splendidly inept thing,' Sylveste said, nodding despite himself.'What?''The human capacity for grief. It just isn’t capable of providing an adequate emotional response once the dead exceed a few dozen in number. And it doesn’t just level off-it just gives up, resets itself to zero. Admit it. None of us feel a damn about these people.'
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My mother went to university, my father didn't. But they are very educated, very wise people. My father went to the military, so he's worldly.
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But I'm always trying to plan ahead too and in doing so, and in working on this album, I've met a lot people that I hope to be involved with, on their records and in their situations.
