Jakaya Kikwete Quotes
If people want to get into leadership through corrupt practices, through corrupt means, I think that's detestable; we have to take action.
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
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I don't like it when people don't hold the door. I don't know, that really bugs me... I guess I like manners.
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It's my job to make sure that the people I'm gonna team up with for my music see everything that I'm about: Put all my cards on the table and don't make them guess.
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When the gun lobby fights gun-control legislation, its logic is clear: it does not like laws that prevent people from owning or using guns.
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I'm just very pleased and thankful that there was a receptive audience of people that I was able to connect with.
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It's kind of a catch-22 now because since the 'Da Vinci Code,' I have access to places and people that I didn't have access to before, so that's a lot of fun for somebody like me, but I'm always trying to keep a secret. I don't want people to know what I'm writing about.
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I liked 'Star Wars,' but I wasn't an uberfan like many people are.
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Just as theater has to be where people live, actors have to go out in the marketplace - not be cut off by a lens. Either an artist grows or he stagnates.
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I didn't plan on going into show business. Show business picked me. And it's been fun. One of the best things about being in show business is people think they know me, and they feel like they grew up with me.
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That's definitely something I've experienced my whole life - people thinking one thing and then discovering that I'm not, hopefully. So I relate to having to fight that and claim my own identity, when people are trying to throw different ones at me.
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I think I spent my entire childhood on film sets, surrounded by film-makers and actors and people with magnetic energies who make movies.
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That case with my two sisters? That was a disaster. It was. They're really fine people. When my family and my two sisters' families - their children - grew up and so on, it just wasn't the same. But we took care of them very nicely.
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I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.
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The people who were learning from me tended to be more commercial performers who were gonna rip off the salient idea to do it in a way that will sell, but they weren't going for the music.
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People have told me about organized crime in the fashion industry, but I can't talk about that. I'm looking to stay alive.
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I have to reinvent myself.
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I admire a lot of people, but in terms of sport I've always loved the mentality of Tiger Woods on a golf course. I always love his eyes when he's setting himself and focusing on his decision; he has a really strong, focused face and believes that he can make the shot.
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There was no way to lock down, or tighten up, or Fail-Safe into Security Theater a race that covers 26.2 miles, a race that travels from town to town, a race that travels past people's houses. There was no way to garrison the Boston Marathon. Now there will be.
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It's one of the biggest benefits of being president that you really don't think about until you get here.
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Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals.
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Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts.
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Art is but imitation of nature.
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If people want to get into leadership through corrupt practices, through corrupt means, I think that's detestable; we have to take action.
