Max Roach Quotes
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Surprisingly, I'm not a fan of guns or anything like that!
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As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on myself. It just motivates me to be more prepared, focus and disciplined. That's why I care so much about doing black films and making sure that we represent and are represented correctly.
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I don't have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older.
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I just want to do my job.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
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I have an appetite to always learn.
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Running is what keeps my weight down. I have to stay active or I could easily gain weight.
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Are you used to entertaining everyone with your tales of drama and conflict? Do you get attention and feel important every time you complain about how awful this man is? Stop settling for attention for the negative stuff in your life.
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Puberty extends into your twenties, for sure, and some people don't get over that until much later in life. I feel like I'm just starting to get over puberty - basically twenty years of insufferable, totally self-obsessed hell.
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He is very upbeat but we hear that all the time from just about any athlete.
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I'm a plodder, one foot in front of the other. Life is all about understanding that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And it's your ability with how you deal with that adversity that ultimately affects your success.
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I went to Australia and did a three day hike with my fiance through the wilderness, which was nice.
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America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.
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We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.
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I love cars, but I love bikes more.
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Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.
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If you look at suburban education in New Jersey and New York, it's pretty strong, intact, doing a pretty good job. You cap taxes for those communities, can we reasonably predict it's going to be as strong 20 years from now?
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All my vocals were recorded at home, which was great for me. You can actually have a studio in a computer program called ProTools. I did half the record with ProTools.
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Most of our children have access to Internet-accessible technology, yet most of us are actually not paying much attention to what they're doing online.
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I think Hillary Clinton's been's depressing democratic turnout.
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The men have piled up in my past, have fallen trenchantly through my life, like an avalanche that doesn't mean to kill but is going to bury me alive just the same.
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To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or guess at anything but that world is not merely hell but the only possible damnation: the act of a man damning himself. It may be
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The American drummer is a one-man percussion orchestra.
