Burning Spear (Winston Rodney) Quotes
People have been listening to Burning Spear for a long time now, and they know who I am and what I stand for. Yes, I do address many of the same ideas from album to album, adding only a little different flavor or coloring. Yes, the message has remained virtually the same because the issues haven't gone away yet.
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Drilling in ANWR fails to lower energy prices today and sets no long term energy strategy for tomorrow.
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My favourite thing in my wardrobe is my jewelry.
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The secret of doing well on TV is to understand that it's not too important. A lot of people watching doesn't change anything.
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I know how to make a record that commercial radio or Triple J will smash now... It's kind of hard to stay true and write what you would write if you didn't have that in your head. Because I know I can get way more airplay and get this much bigger... and that's what I'm trying to avoid doing. Trying to avoid the poisons of success.
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That's something USA Hockey has been trying to do for a long time is prove that we can play with the Canadians and the Russians and the Swedes and Finns consistently on a tournament basis.
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San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.
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Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for a long time.
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People die because they find living too painful.
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The women who don't feel that people think they're sexy are the ones who seem to titillate in that way, because they don't feel like they're getting that kind of approval.
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The American people... want change. They want big ideas, big reform.
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When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.
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Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.
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Friday night is our date night. We really carve out time for each other.
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I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
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I love to work in all sorts of different situations.
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People who watch 'Transporter' are maybe asking a little less about reality, being serious, and so on.
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I like being a Baha'i who has an out-there sense of humor. God gives us talents and faculties, and making people laugh is one of mine.
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I don't believe you can get into somebody's character but more that somebody comes in you. You just use yourself. In everything I play, I feel like it is me. I just say different things on different times and look different.
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There are a lot of different facets to my personality that I don't use all the time in my house, or in everyday life, that I can experience and share when I'm on a stage.
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I just love where I am right now in my career. I love country music. I don't ever feel restricted by the genre. I've been able to have a solid career that we've built one step at a time and a family. I know that I'm in a good place.
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I invest in things for the long term and have a long horizon and the flexibility.
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You all seem to think that you should marry someone when you feel this intense emotion, which you call love. And then you expect that the love will fade over time, as life gets harder. When what you should do is find yourself a nice enough fellow and let real love develop over years and births and deaths and so on.
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Secrets stolen from deep inside....the drum beats out of time
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People have been listening to Burning Spear for a long time now, and they know who I am and what I stand for. Yes, I do address many of the same ideas from album to album, adding only a little different flavor or coloring. Yes, the message has remained virtually the same because the issues haven't gone away yet.
