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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Becoming famous and selling a lot of records doesn't change a thing.
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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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I do what I do because of Walt Disney - his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy in entertaining.
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I kind of miss the hatchet days of Mr. Fairchild at 'WWD', when they really took no prisoners and there was sort of outrageous favoritism and its inverse.
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My grandmother was very important to me. She gave me my religious education. She gave me a sense of the female side of Judaism, of the rich store of stories and legends of the women of the schtetl.
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Obviously, any living musician born after 1960 has been touched by rock and roll. It's the music of our time, and it's 'in the air,' as Steve Reich would say. My experience of it is just really direct because I'm actually playing in a collaborative band.
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Will doesn't have to be struggle!
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You don't have to invent the wheel, but you might want to be the company that invents the rims.
