Israel Kamakawiwo'ole Quotes
Hawaiian to me is a feeling of getting somewhere, without stepping on anybodys toes, without causing friction with anybody.
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I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
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I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.
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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
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The soldier who gropes for glory must submit himself to discipline. Subordination gives strength and security to an army. He that will not submit to it when corrected and improved by the experience of ages does not deserve the proud appellation of a soldier.
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In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
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I was a very difficult child, and the time I spent reading was about the only peace I gave my mother.
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I went out of my way to try not to be an artist, because I thought I would end up leading a miserable, obscure life. I tried to escape it for as long as I could, until I had to admit at 25 that that was my path.
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I'm a reporter – if I don't interview someone, I don't have much to say, and I definitely can't just sit down and knock out 800 words on any subject you give me.
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Trying your best to bring the water to your eyes, thinking it might stop her from woopin' your behind.
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Gods induction, life's construction, these instruct will save every living thing. Can't you see that life's connected?
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English? Who needs to spend time learning that? I'm never going to England!
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Fatherland before everything, art afterward.
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He's worked his entire life and he's never lived a single moment, I mean not a moment, in the real world.
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I'm starting to mistrust my judgment.
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The test in life nowadays is just trying to keep yourself charged up with enough good feeling. It's like, "OK what am I going to do to feel really good today?" Not like, some chick or a drink.
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Since I was a child, my father was sick. I've always known him to be that way. That's why I'm proud of him - he has a disease he's obviously struggling with, but he's not letting it stop him from doing what he wants to do.
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One thing that's always been important to me is to try and build a tool kit, drumming-wise, that was diverse and wide-ranging in terms of what I played.
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If you've lived a bad life, they send you to Hell. But if you've been truly wicked, they give you a tour of Heaven first.
