Paul Mooney (Paul Gladney) Quotes
If you have money and you have fame, but you don't have any confidence in your blackness, then it's all for nothing.
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When I started out in fashion, everything had to be very structured and tight and controlling, and now I'm getting to a point where I think - I could wear a great big parka, that could be quite fabulous. I haven't always got to show off my size, show off my shape. It's a turning point for me.
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I have only a few really enviable skills, but packing - condensing just the right amount of stuff into a single bag, whether the trip is for a weekend or, as in this case, seven weeks - is one of them.
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Nocebos often cause a physical effect, but it's not a physically produced effect. What's the cause? In many cases, it's an unanswered question.
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We must adjust our value systems and work to modify today's societies, in which economic interests are carried to the extreme and irrationally produce not merely objects, but weapons of war. These societies don't care about the destruction of the planet and mankind as long as they earn profits - it can't go on like this.
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I'm a thigh-meat dude. Thigh is just the best meat - I don't get chicken breast. I think it's a publicity stunt that we've convinced people it's delicious.
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If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.
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Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.
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Is it the right thing to burn Qurans? Legally? Can pastor burn Quran tomorrow? People accept legally it is right. But is it the right thing to do? No.
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In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order.
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I love meat - I'm Cuban; I grew up eating meat, platanos, and arroz con pollo. I don't believe in starving yourself, but sometimes I do cleanses and diets to prepare for a role.
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I like other people's kids and being able to give them back when I want to.
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Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
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I've always fought for my country, in my own way, showing that Filipinos are a strong people and can do anything that they put their minds to.
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I want to work with great directors. I want to work on good material with good actors. I've probably done 20 movies at this point and a lot of independents. It's been an incredible ride and I love it and I'm just going to keep going and doing what I'm doing.
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One day of practice is like one day of clean living. It doesn't do you any good.
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The principal cause of war is war itself.
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The entire world is now a rival to Silicon Valley. No country, state, region, nor city has a lock on innovation in technology anymore.
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I was a Democrat for a period of time early on. And then I was also an independent. And then I became a Republican.
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Playing live is such a total visceral experience, and really, as a musician, you're trained from the beginning to be a live performer.
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No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.
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Everything you listen to when you are 17 should be embarrassing, otherwise you are way too cool.
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The last time money left the art world, intrepid types maxed out their credit cards and opened galleries, and a few of them have become the best in the world.
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I used to listen to 'Ready to Die' around the time I dropped out of college. I was scrambling for work and money.
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If you have money and you have fame, but you don't have any confidence in your blackness, then it's all for nothing.
