Jay Kay Quotes
Every now and again I need to get away from everything. I'm quite a hidey-hole kind of a guy.
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The main threat to the future of Europe is not those who want to come here to live but our own political, economic, and intellectual elites bent on transforming Europe against the clear will of the European people.
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A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.
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Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos.
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There is nothing I'm any more passionate than empowering the next generation.
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There was a time for German stars in the 1950s with Curt Jurgens, Hardy Kruger, O. W. Fischer, and Maria Schell. That was a totally different generation. It all ended in 1968 during the big students' movement in my country. It was an anti-authority movement that changed everything. All my country's hierarchies, morals and values were questioned.
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People say if bees die out, the world would end, apparently. Now, I don't know if that's true, if that's some bee enthusiast who managed to write a good document, and people believe this.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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Hanging out with my girlfriends is my sanity saver. We go out for a bad chick flick and dinner. I suggest you break free from the guys, see a really silly, girly movie, and get a little something to eat afterwards. It feels like a treat.
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I love my mom and dad.
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I knew at university that medicine was just not for me. I saved many lives by not being a doctor!
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Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
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In terms of script, Bollywood should learn from South Indian scripts. Not talking about the fights and action, I am talking about the drama bit.
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My inner motivation is to make the world a better place; the bad guy and the good guy think the same thing.
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Why do you have to be out of town to write a postcard? I want a to write a postcard to my neighbor: "I still live near you!" The guy sees me go into my apartment, flips the card over, it's just a picture of me holding a rifle.
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Strong limits on carbon pollution will save Americans money, create jobs, improve our health, and help defuse climate change.
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There were evictions that I saw that I know I'll never forget. In one case, the sheriff and the movers came up on a house full of children. The mom had passed away, and the children had just gone on living there. And the sheriff executed the eviction order - moved the kids' stuff out on the street on a cold, rainy day.
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Countries are different. They make different choices. We cannot harmonise everything.
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Every now and again I need to get away from everything. I'm quite a hidey-hole kind of a guy.
