Jay Kay Quotes
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Having Black hair is unique in that Black women change up styles a lot. You can walk down one street block in New York City and see 10 different hairstyles that Black women are wearing: straight curls, short cuts, braids - we really run the gamut.
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I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.
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A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.
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I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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I would play my Dungeons and Dragons songs and watch people's eyes glaze over, and then I would start joking around between songs, and all of a sudden people were lighting up and engaging.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
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At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
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When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.
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No person is just one particular emotion.
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You feel like you need to deal with a lot if you're from Cleveland, so you learn to let things roll off your back, and you learn that humor is the best way to deal with it.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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I'm really anti-option, so computers have been my nightmare with recording. I don't want endless tracks; I want less tracks. I want decisions to be made.
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The textile industry became a huge deal in 19th century America, kind of like the tech industry is today. And that immigrant tradition continues, especially in tech, America's most dominant and dynamic industry today.
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I played Woodstock in '69, and it really changed my life. Without a doubt, it was the single event that really changed the way I felt about music. Up to that point, I hadn't really thought of myself as more serious musician, and I didn't really have that much interest in pop music.
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To be a more efficient, faster, and cheaper way to send money around the world, you have to be able to get in and out of Bitcoin. You need to have a liquid exchange on either end of the corridor.
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If you're fortunate enough, you get to a position where you can be a little pickier about your roles.
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Most of us live our whole lives without having an adventure to call our own.
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A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.
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Greece could default on its debts and even exit currency bloc if it cannot deliver reforms.
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Garry Shandling's stand-up specials were masterpieces of tightly crafted stories that delivered both hard jokes and hard truths. He was neurotic and self-deprecating, and his observations on life cut deep.
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In my mind, there's a time and a place for putting your foot down.
