Burning Spear (Winston Rodney) Quotes
When people see a legend, they call it a legend. But to be a legend, it's a lot of hard work and patience. You can't play for five or ten years and be a legend. It takes longer than that.
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.
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I think people respect honesty rather than hiding it.
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We would consider it our moral duty to lend all support to the ending of colonialism and imperialism so that people everywhere are free to mould their own destiny.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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Dress codes and gestures and attitudes have always inspired me, as has youth culture in general, although now I question it more. If you analyze youth cultures over history, there has always been something strict about them - you have to be like this or like that.
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The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
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I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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I was a huge comic book fan as a kid. The only problem I had with comic books is how expensive they got. I didn't have a lot of money, so I had to be very specific about what I wanted to collect. I think they're all somewhere in the basement of my folks' house.
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I've always had this sneaking suspicion that I get a kick out of the insecurity.
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Take your average couscous salad, and it's almost always a sloppy mush, no matter how much attention has gone into getting flavours in there.
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I have a son, Mason, who is disabled - cerebral palsy - and he does not walk independently, sit independently or speak. He uses a talking computer. I started becoming an advocate for him when he was 3 years old.
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Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.
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Life is such a tragicomedy.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
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Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.
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Steve Jobs had his critics. Some saw him as an egomaniac, and others, as a control freak.
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A lot of people don't know how to navigate: they think, once you become a Christian, you essentially have to become Ned Flanders.
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Sometimes it is better to work out the map for yourself rather than have it given to you, in terms of learning.
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Economics has paid a terrible price for its dalliances with the Keynesian and neoclassical theories.
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For two and a half years, I rigorously trained seven to eight hours a day in two disciplines of dance but moved on to the most versatile medium called cinema which encompassed every form of art.
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When people see a legend, they call it a legend. But to be a legend, it's a lot of hard work and patience. You can't play for five or ten years and be a legend. It takes longer than that.
