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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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People read way too much into personalities and all that stuff.
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You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.
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I think people try to jam a lot of artificial plot devices into a lot of romantic comedies, and they don't treat it with the respect I believe it deserves.
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Personally, I don't even read bummer news stories about the environment because it makes me feel helpless to fix anything and reminds me that the general population doesn't treat these issues as an important part of our political life.
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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.
