Stephen Marley Quotes
When reggae was introduced to the world, it was a voice of the oppressed, a music with integrity that you can enjoy holistically. Throughout the years, what has become commercial kind of strayed from the integrity.
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We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.
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Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There's no better way to get your point across than to put it in a beautiful song.
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My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn't that enough?
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Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.
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Protesters should make their own media and not rely on mainstream media to cover them.
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Most regular superhero books are designed to go on forever; of course, very few of them do, but the point is they are trying to throw mud against the wall and hope it will stick, and most of it slides off.
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The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.
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The health industry, the fitness industry, was really starting to pick up. This was around the mid 80's.
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I learned this early on in the variety business: You've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then you've got to check on them.
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Sports, as a media property, is increasingly valuable because it's something you have to have live. As a result, we're a better touch point for sponsors and advertisers because our commercials typically don't get zapped out.
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I try not to push myself too hard, but I also need to perform and earn the results.
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I've always had a thing for old movies, old Hollywood. I've always just loved watching Marilyn Monroe and Greta Garbo. In all of those old movies from the '40s and '50s, women put themselves together so well, with a little bit of drama and elegance. That was fascinating to me growing up.
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I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.
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I don't have time to be depressed.
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I've always wanted to be a professional golfer and I'm glad that came true.
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Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.
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I'm shocked at being recognized.
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This book here, 'The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder,' in it, I put together a case against George Bush that could result - it absolutely could result in his being prosecuted for first-degree murder in an American courtroom.
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Actually, I'm 5-8 and change without shoes. With shoes, 5-9.
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Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.
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Mozambique and Zimbabwe must bring into being a new force in Malawi. We must not allow South Africa to set the course in Malawi... The victory is being planned... It demands cold-bloodedness.
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Often the 'lead' of a classical song will have something really cool to its melody that - even though it might be a violin or something doing it in the song - I end up wanting to try something like that with my voice.
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When reggae was introduced to the world, it was a voice of the oppressed, a music with integrity that you can enjoy holistically. Throughout the years, what has become commercial kind of strayed from the integrity.
