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.
Quotes to Explore
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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 think, in a lot of ways, it's easier to play a smaller room. You can exploit the quieter dynamics you would shy away from in larger venues.
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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
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I love adventure movies, I just love action adventure films. It's pure cinema and you go in and you're lost to it. To me, it's that challenge - I want to give an audience that ride, that entertainment.
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I love Hugh Laurie, but I don't want to be a guy who goes to work every day for nine months of the year in a corner of Burbank. I really don't. I like doing a bit here and a bit there and strange things, and I think that's held me back.
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We contain our past. Unknown it might be, but it persists alive and urging.
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You don't have to invent the wheel, but you might want to be the company that invents the rims.
