Saul Williams Quotes
Legislation won't necessarily start a riot. But the right song can make someone pick up a chair.
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Being a celebrity, I don't even have to talk.
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The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering.
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It would be nice to be on the charts again, nice to be recognised.
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It's true that I have always been very comfortable with numbers.
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Baking is my pastime. I just love creating things. But it's not what I want to do for a living. Acting is what I want to do.
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In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
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I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.
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I loved Judy Garland. I thought she was such a classic beauty. I thought she was so endearing and charming, and I loved her voice. She was such a dreamer, and I think I was, too - and I am.
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I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it.
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If you have a great-sounding guitar that's a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how to make the guitar talk, that's the key. It starts with the guitar and knowing what it should sound and feel like.
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For gay people, we learned about our lives in secrecy and a lot of fear.
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Low interest rates are a big opportunity for investment. But the issue is that this money should go to the real economy, not the financial economy.
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Now I am within thirty yards of him. He must fall. The gun pours out its stream of lead. Then it jams. Then it reopens fire. That jam almost saved his life.
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There is this tremendous body of knowledge in the world of academia where extraordinary numbers of incredibly thoughtful people have taken the time to examine on a really profound level the way we live our lives and who we are and where we've been. That brilliant learning sometimes gets trapped in academia and never sees the light of day.
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Oh my God, there are so many songs I wish I had written. 'Waters of March,' I wish I had written 'My Baby Just Cares for Me,' I wish I had written 'This Will Be Our Year,' I mean, there's millions of them. 'Wouldn't It Be Nice?'
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All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn't have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.
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Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.
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I think you learn something from everybody that you've worked with. I really learned how to behave on set through the people that I worked with, like the importance of being on time and the importance of being professional. I don't bring my cell phone on set; I leave it in my trailer.
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There are really three parts to the creative process. First there is inspiration, then there is the execution, and finally there is the release.
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Leave history to historians.
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You deserve to live. You deserve to be alive.
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Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.
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I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff.
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Legislation won't necessarily start a riot. But the right song can make someone pick up a chair.
