Max Roach Quotes
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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It's impossible for China to keep 10 to 15% growth annually. The economy needed to slow down, and we have to learn to slow down.
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I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.
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The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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I feel like fashion should not happen in the morning.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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I never really did any disco dancing.
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Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.
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The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders of mechanics and artisans, among whom great distress and a dangerous spirit of discontent with the government at that time prevailed.
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The trouble with glossy magazines is that they tend to be stuffed with articles about handbag designers - the sort of women who, with their perfectly styled lives, immaculate houses, and adoring partners, make you want to become a hermit.
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There are things that bother me. I try not to let them, but they do.
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Yes, The Persuaders, that was great fun because one of my favourite actors is Roger Moore.
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We are in a world that is quite extremist and extremism makes more noise. Normality does not sell.
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I don't consider myself a competition to anyone. There is ample space for everyone here. When there are directors who create characters for me, why should I feel bothered or insecure? When it comes to updating myself, I work very hard to relate to the emotions of characters I play.
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Our concern is solely with the basic structure of society and its major institutions and therefore with the standard cases of social justice.
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I do know where I'm from, and I'm proud to be an Arkansan and to represent country music.
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Hollywood's got its own particular environment.
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There's just some dysfunctionalism with artists. There are good things and bad things about being an artist, and the good thing is, sometimes you get an inside line on what's really happening. You develop these strange antennae that clue you in to what's really going on.
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Monk encouraged me to emancipate the drums from their subservient role as timekeepers.
