Stanley Kirk Burrell (MC Hammer) Quotes
You don't have to invent the wheel, but you might want to be the company that invents the rims.
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You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.
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You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.
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We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.
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I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.
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When it comes to jobs, jobs are just like products in the sense that the free market operates and sees that somebody gets paid what they're worth.
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I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
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When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they start calling people my age, 18, up, I was one they called.
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Some people who like dogs don't like cats, but I'm not like that.
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History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
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In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.
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I have been lucky enough to travel a lot, meet great people in many lands. I have liked almost everyone I met along the way.
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A short piece of work means as much to me as a long piece of work.
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We still have a lot of work to do in American culture. More open-mindedness is happening - in some cases rapidly, in some, slowly.
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It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be.
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The number one priority in life is to take care of yourself and make sure you're happy.
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There is no life without sport and no sport without competition.
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I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
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There are very few films that I've ever seen in my life that would be as silent or vacant as something like Jeremiah Johnson, and that to me was unbelievably captivating. You can see the same about [The Outlaw] Josey Wales: there's very little dialogue, and yet it contains such a deep, rich story. I've always thought of the western as American storytelling at its best.
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I think it's important for Donald Trump to express his appreciation for veterans - not John McCain, but veterans who were incarcerated as prisoners of war.
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Nothing you can do will benefit you more than prayer.
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You don't have to invent the wheel, but you might want to be the company that invents the rims.
