Jay Kay Quotes
I have to thank my mum for kicking me out at 16 and making me stand on my own two feet - that's how I got here.
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Well, when you get into the business, what you have to realize is that signing autographs and getting 'bothered' is just part of the deal. It's not a bother to me at all. That's part of being an actor and that's something you have to realize before you ever get into this business.
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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
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Thank you for the sacrifices you and your families are making. Our Vietnam Veterans have taught us that no matter what are positions may be on policy, as Americans and patriots, we must support all of our soldiers with our thoughts and our prayers.
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Notice the times in your life when you go above and beyond simply because you care so much.
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I first fell in love with music when I was a little boy. When I first heard music, I felt the beauty in it. Then, being able to tap along on a table top and box was great, but my favorite thing to do was to watch records spin. I would almost get hypnotized by it. These things are what drew me in initially.
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Special-interest magazines are dangerous places for writers to start out in because the writing quickly falls into a routine and people are likely to find themselves artistically exhausted when they want to work on something of their own.
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Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it.
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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
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When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution.
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People are already on Match and already going to Starbucks on first dates.
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I've worked with a band, and it's nice to have someone to travel around with, but I didn't like it as well on stage.
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Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.
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The TUC's new slogan 'a future that works' sets a profound challenge. Austerity and rapid deficit reduction is failing in its own terms, but even at its best it is short-sighted, muddle-through politics with no vision of a new economic model.
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Many Chinese companies are run like military camps with military discipline. We do not run a company that way. It does not help the creative process.
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Is only a tennis match. At the end, that's life. There is much more important things.
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Writing is a strange and solitary activity.
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There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.
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Many poets...write as if they had been decerebrated, and not simply lobotomized, as a cure for their melancholia.
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I have an unreasonably optimistic view of the world.
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Looking back to the earlier centuries of the church, most of the great teachers were also bishops and vice versa. It's only fairly recently that the church has had this great divide.
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I like computers as a tool. I like them as an instrument. I think they're just pretty.
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Science is really about individual experts reaching a consensus.
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People go through life blindly, ignoring death like revellers at a party feasting on fine foods. They ignore that later they will have to go to the toilet, so they do not bother to find out where there is one. When nature finally calls, they have no idea where to go and are in a mess.
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I have to thank my mum for kicking me out at 16 and making me stand on my own two feet - that's how I got here.
