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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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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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
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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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The constant questioning of our values and achievements is a challenge without which neither science nor society can remain healthy.
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Ralph had lost real power by trying to gain the appearance of power. He was a leader. But he was following a program for leaders ; therefore, he was a follower... he was, as he put it, a high-level mediocre.
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If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.
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Maybe it's all in my head. feel like leaving but I don't really want toBut I feel so misled, a kiss through the phone just won't do, no'Cause from my point of view, I gotta saySomething 'bout you, so tell me, babySomewhere down the road I think you lost it allNow it's all in my head
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Well, I wanted to play twenty years in the major leagues. I never made it twenty though. I played nineteen.
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Already when I was very young, I was a fabulador. I loved to give my own version of stories that everybody already knew.
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Fiscal policy is not just, or even not even principally, the purview of the president.
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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.
