Israel Kamakawiwo'ole Quotes
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I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.
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I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.
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The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.
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I am actually one of those who took President Obama at his word when he first ran - that he would get us out of ill-advised wars, that he would do something about health care costs, and that he would protect civil liberties. Like many Americans, I was disappointed.
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I have Chinese blood in me... I am not ashamed to admit that perhaps the great leaders of our country all have Chinese blood.
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Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.
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I studied writing at university, and I actually majored in screenwriting. Then I went to work as a bookseller and then as a sales rep and publicist and then various editorial jobs until I ended up with HarperCollins in Australia.
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Predicting rain doesn't count. Building arks does.
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Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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There ain't nothing that we need to be worried about. We just need to be in the right lane where everybody else be in the left lane.
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I'm a fun-loving guy. We are basically from Amritsar and ours is a chilled-out family. I think I have got my humour from my mother.
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In Peru, if you gave somebody a little chance to do something, they took it to the furthest extent. They took nothing for granted. And here in L.A., you kind of get caught up in your own little dilemmas and your own little life.
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Kirstie Alley seems like she's absolutely amazing.
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It is possible and very common to overcome and manage a mental illness.
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I like to edit my sentences as I write them. I rearrange a sentence many times before moving on to the next one. For me, that editing process feels like a form of play, like a puzzle that needs solving, and it's one of the most satisfying parts of writing.
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I'm obsessed with making lists.
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Whatever market a company might dominate today, it is likely to change substantially over the next ten years. There's no such thing as 'sustaining' leadership; it must be reinvented again and again.
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This sight was terrible, more terrible than words convey, for words are cowards as men are, and hide things as men do.
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The free market punishes irresponsibility. Government rewards it.
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Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood.
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If you look hard enough, you'll find something good about me and say it.
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I like to windsurf and ski, and most of all I love to ride horses. The wilder and faster the better! If I'm presented with a fast horse or a fast boat, I still get that shiver of excitement and I cannot resist. Luckily I never seem to have any accidents, and thank God for that.
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For as Jews, the problem happens to be more urgent and vital than for others; because the destruction of religion on America will involve the destruction also of the religious training of freedom; and with that our civil liberties.
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I was scared when I lost my mother, my father, my brother, my sister.