Israel Kamakawiwo'ole Quotes
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I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.
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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 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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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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Don't let your hearts grow numb. Stay alert. It is your soul which matters.
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When I was younger, I didn't have the finer things in life. It was around me - the cars, the jewelry and all of that. But I didn't have it. So I did bad things to get what I wanted. Going to jail never crossed my mind. I wish it had. When I was locked up, my mother didn't support me because she couldn't accept who I was and where I was.
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At the end of the day, I know that I would rather be alone and occasionally lonely and unhappy than in a miserable marriage and lonely and unhappy all the time. I don't mind being single. In fact, I like it.
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We (actors) don't really change the world. We reflect it... but Washington really changes the world.
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I'll be pleased when I'm dead. That will let me off worrying about all these wars.
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We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.
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I was scared when I lost my mother, my father, my brother, my sister.
