Herb Alpert Quotes
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One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.
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If we took information only from sources with which we agreed on all issues, we would be left with merely quoting ourselves, and we would miss a great deal of truth.
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I like someone who's not afraid to be a kid!
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I think it's fun to get in a room and sweat with people. I'm happy to share my workouts with everyone.
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New York was at the forefront of rap, so because of all the great people who have gone before me, being a rapper from Queens, I have to live up to those standards. I'm basically just a regular guy who says what he feels and likes to joke. I like long walks on the beach... and I love rap.
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Culture is about the mindset of people, and we are very happy to have a strong combined mindset of people.
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The goal is always to do B material in an A fashion.
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I'm old enough to remember when the polio vaccine was still new. Also, it hadn't been that long since most people who caught pneumonia died from it. These medical breakthroughs were practically miracles.
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We set up a small bitcoin and ethereum mining operation... that miraculously now is actually making a lot of money.
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Characters actors don't usually get noticed until they're about 38 or so.
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I have a ranch, which is my favorite place in the world.
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I wasn't known as a neighborhood tough or anything like that. But yeah, I was, like, a scrappy kid. You know, I kind of kept to myself, you know?
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While books expand horizons by exposing us to worlds outside our own, children also need to see themselves, their experiences and their cultures reflected in books they read. Unfortunately, for too many children, this is not the norm.
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The intelligent ruler makes the law select men and makes no arbitrary appointment himself; he makes the law measure merits and makes no arbitrary judgment himself.
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My father used to take me to the movies on Saturdays. In 1940, when I was four years old, we encountered 'Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe.' I loved it. Especially the rocket ship, which I later realized had no airlock and no washroom. But they managed to get to Mongo with it.
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We all want what every girl wants: to look fabulous while we're out there ruling the world.
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You go through phases. You have to reinvent reasons for playing, and one year's answer might not do for another.
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Police officers and firemen are so visible in their daily work, there's no mistaking they're there - and that presence makes people feel secure.
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I eat to live and not the other way around. As a vegetarian, I'm not at all fussy about food and can make do with anything.
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The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop song. That's the only music you can do that with.
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All I do is track a profane route to something (I hope) profound. Like swimming a river of shit for a kiss.
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I never listen to music when I write. It's too much of a distraction.
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If you miss the bus, miss the train, you’d be left behind. So everyone says, let’s get on the train, let’s get on the bus and go faster and get rich... I just didn’t like that kind of lifestyle. I love to read books, to listen to music.
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Instrumental music can spread the international language.
