Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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The Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument may be distant from our shores, but it will help us understand how healthy marine ecosystems work and how we can revive troubled seas closer to home.
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All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.
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There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.
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I haven't leaked anything to anybody. They are wrong!
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Everybody has their struggles.
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At first, I was hesitant when it came to giving autographs, thinking that I am not even worth giving one. But slowly I got over that phase.
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Most of my fans, if you were to look on their iPods, you'd see every possible genre of music represented in some capacity.
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When I'm singing I feel like I'm talking to someone. I'm in conversation when I perform - either with myself or with whomever is listening.
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If you're conservative in Hollywood, you're on a list of people who need to be put in their place.
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I don't think successful musicians were really put on this planet in order to have a great time, pat themselves on the back and say, 'Oh, what a clever boy I am!' I think that, like most artists, we were put on the planet to suffer just a little. And we do.
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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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My first celebrity crush... I had a huge crush on 'Cheetara' from 'ThunderCats.'
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Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society.
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I decided to write 'True Refuge' during a major dive in my own health. Diagnosed with a genetic disease that affected my mobility, I faced tremendous fear and grief about losing the fitness and physical freedom I loved.
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My role models have kept on changing.
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Looking back, it puzzles me that my parents decided to stay in Shanghai when they must have known that war was imminent. But the cotton works were my father's responsibility, and duty then counted for something.
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Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light.
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Congo, my country, has the largest forest in Africa, maybe the second-largest in the world. I was born in a forest area, and when I was growing up, I assisted my uncle, who was a poacher. That was good, because it grew my passion for protecting the forest and plants.
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It is not that I don't like contemporary country music because I do. I love it. I have recorded a lot and have had great success recording records that have not been very traditional country records.
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Psychiatrists always say, Oh, we're very professional. I use exercise as my medication.
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You need to know the characters as living, breathing people before you start the plot; otherwise, you'll feel panic, anarchy and chaos.
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Catholics and evangelicals need to remain allied, and in solidarity, against the increasingly aggressive secularism of our age.
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Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.
