John Conyers Quotes
Every few generations there are people who come along that change the way we look at the world, for musical enthusiasts Monk is one of these individuals.
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When I sing, people shut up.
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So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
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Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
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Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure.
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I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city.
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I do things, and other people laugh at them. I rarely know what the joke is supposed to be or why they're laughing.
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If you've been in a film that's seen by millions and millions and millions of people, you're more likely to be recognized for that than for your theater performances, which were seen by considerably less people. Why would I get upset by that?
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I was scared, because I knew that in the political arena, you have to satisfy so many different types of people at once, and I wasn't sure that I could speak for everybody and be politically correct.
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It makes me happy to think that this world of art-as-investment is a minuscule fraction of the art world overall. Most people who create, trade and own art do it for a much simpler reason. They just like it.
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Sometimes in the morning, when it's a good surf, I go out there, and I don't feel like it's a bad world.
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All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.
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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
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The most important ethical issues and the most difficult ones are the human ones because a reporter has enormous power to hurt people.
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I can't afford to step away from acting, but the one thing I've learnt after all these years is that I don't fit in. It's very difficult to be at the mercy of other people's whims and visions.
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That is why we are working with these various groups that have volunteers. We can get a lot of these things done. Nobody has dropped out, and a lot of people would like to join. We now know what each other does.
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It's fun to move people musically.
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There should be order if the development of the cyber world is to be sustainable.
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A lot of my intensity in wrestling was due to my mental preparation before the matches. I got myself into a different world.
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The worm hissed. "You said it couldn't see!" shouted Oates, forgetting Umber's instruction to be silent. He shook a fist. "We all heard it, Umber! You specifically said, it couldn't see!" "I know-isn't it wonderful to learn something new?" Umber laughed.
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Maybe I'm outdated in thinking this, but because I'm a young black woman and don't see very many being the lead in a film, I have this fear: 'Will I be working?'
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The terrible thing about being an actor is that it's not a solo occupation.
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If you try to be funny, you're not being funny.
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Every few generations there are people who come along that change the way we look at the world, for musical enthusiasts Monk is one of these individuals.
