Joseph Jackson Quotes
All I know is, he's a good kid, and he's done right all his life. And he always treats other people right.
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I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.
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Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.
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There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.
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I know this sounds terribly shallow, but I've been mapping out my outfits for the next day every day since I was little, even before high school.
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I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.
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I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
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I'm not embarrassed about who I am. I'm not apologetic.
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You know, I have the best parents in the world and I got really, really lucky because they think that everything I do is Oscar-worthy.
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For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.
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Women are the only 'oppressed' group that is able to buy most of the $10 billion worth of cosmetics each year; the only oppressed group that spends more on high fashion, brand-name clothing than its oppressors; the only oppressed group that watches more TV.
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With every project you do, you bring out a part of yourself, and it seems to be quite a good way of expanding a person.
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If you are afraid to fail, then you should go and become a banker.
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Fast bowling is an art, like spin bowling.
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My schedule goes: wake up, running, exercise, downstairs, running shoes off, then to the shower. That's the Jackie Chan diary.
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One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers.
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The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.
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It's because I have no sense of shame that I'm always willing to give things a go: I've ridden horses naked into the sea, I've climbed rocks, all kinds of things.
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Have something to bring to the table, because that will make you more welcomed.
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if you pass amnesty, that's it. It's over. Then we organize the death squads for the people who wrecked America.
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Music would lose its charm were not dissonance interspersed at frequent intervals. The closer a composer can come to discord without actually entering it in the score, the more pleasing will be his composition when given life through musical instruments.
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Life sometimes gets in the way of writing.
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Give the children an opportunity to make garden. Let them grow what they will. It matters less that they grow good plants than that they try for themselves.
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I just come from a school where you have to win something to be accepted.
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All I know is, he's a good kid, and he's done right all his life. And he always treats other people right.
