Michael Sam Quotes
I just want to make sure I could tell my story the way I want to tell it. I just want to own my truth.
Quotes to Explore
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Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.
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Any musician - I would say 99% of musicians - needs some help along the way. Most people, even if they're self-produced, have someone else mix it, or they'll have someone else master the record. Inevitably, it's like somebody else's personality being put into your art.
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When I grow older and less popular, there will come a time when I have to shoot films on low budgets.
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We are shallow because we are 'mayabang,' ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom.
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Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.
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A lot of what gets on the radio isn't saying anything other than somebody wants to be famous and will do whatever they're told to get it.
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Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place?
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The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
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At the end of the day, I'm not a bad person; I don't hurt anyone.
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No one is India.
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While many alien species are harmless, others pose expensive threats to seas and fields and forests.
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There is no one, who possesses intelligence and uses reflection, who does not understand that it is one Being who both created all things and governs them with the same energy by which He created them.
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When you have that long, flowing hair, you feel different - when you cut it, the framing of your face changes immediately.
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Intellectuals would be much more accepted now than in the '40s.
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It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.
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One must know the so-called 'lesson of a downpour.' A man, caught in a sudden rain en route, dashes along the road not to get wet or drenched. Once one takes it for granted that in rain he naturally gets wet, he can be in a tranquil frame of mind even when soaked to the skin. This lesson applies to everything.
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When a loved one passes, there are mixed emotions, and a thirst to live one's own life more deeply can certainly be among them.
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There are so many women who contributed in a very real way in pushing for the space program during the time in which there was a lot of competition to get into space first, and to know that there were African-American women who were integral in that success is pretty phenomenal.
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I've seen a couple of singer switches happen right before my eyes, one being Roy Khan to Tommy Karevik in Kamelot, and the other was Anette Olzon to Floor Jansen in Nightwish. Those happened with me present, and I saw how well the fans took to these singers because they were presented in the proper way.
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The only way I could relax was when I was with my children.
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You can show me some stick ice cream and I can tell you if it's good or not just looking at it.
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For a long time, it was believed that war was waged by armies which could not be identified with the nation itself. Professional soldiers took upon themselves the job of defending national interests, and it was understood that the war affected only them; the country itself went on living and working.
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I just want to make sure I could tell my story the way I want to tell it. I just want to own my truth.
