Wesley Willis Quotes
Here's what I'm going to have to say to all of you. If some of you have demons in your head who talk to you in profanity or whatever, don't let your demon shoot down your rock music, don't let your demon keep you off the joy bus. So like I say, Rock music pays off.
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One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.
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In general, I think the world is a good place if you work hard, believe in yourself, have good intentions, and if you are kind to people, I believe that good things happen to you.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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I never thought I wouldn't succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.
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I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
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I do not want to be a long-term CEO.
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I like excess. And giant M&M's.
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Ergo, because of the money problem, it is probable that our orchestras will soon go down in quality.
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To me, being in your prime means playing your best and feeling your best, too.
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The Bible says, 'Judge not lest ye be judged.' Our lives are supposed to be hospitals, not courtrooms.
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A man with a million dollars can be as happy nowadays as though he were rich.
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We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.
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What worries me is the professionalism of everything.
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I grew up on a wide range of stuff. OutKast, they been around for over 20 years, and some of the L.A. cats like Defari, Dilated Peoples and Likwit Crew. I was always going to these shows and catching the KRS-One tennis ball, as he would throw those out, EPMD. I could go on and on.
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I think Sydney has so much natural beauty; it's just a beautiful city.
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Young people like to think they're invincible. They don't like to face any situation where they've gotten weaker instead of stronger.
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What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
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Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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I don't want to spend a month and a half in a studio with music I don't like, and fortunately I don't have to.
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It was not until I was in my forties, in the fifth decade of my life, that the sense of place, the spirit of place, became of paramount importance to me. It was then that I began my travels, that I discovered, through photography, the quality of light, and that I gradually became able to paint the mood of place.
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Having a multi-cultural background has granted me access into different ideologies, cultures, and ways of living. It has shaped who I am and how I participate in the world.
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On the environmental front there's concern about global warming and high levels of carbon dioxide, and trees take in CO2 and store carbon.
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Don't be afraid to make horrendous errors. Don't be scared to go with your gut feeling.
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Here's what I'm going to have to say to all of you. If some of you have demons in your head who talk to you in profanity or whatever, don't let your demon shoot down your rock music, don't let your demon keep you off the joy bus. So like I say, Rock music pays off.
