Lamont Dozier Quotes
All three of us just had our eye on what was happening around us, we were very observant to what people were doing in love situations, and what was happening in the world.
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There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
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Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
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I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.
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I like to get suggestions on what to read. I'll look at Twitter, people I like, people I admire... I'll go and research the book, download it on my phone and read it while I'm on the road.
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I've grown up playing for some incredible coaches, and I don't think anybody's ever been as fortunate as I have in terms of the people I've been allowed to play under, coach under, or be involved with.
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I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.
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I have the potential to be very strong and powerful, sometimes angry, sometimes passionate. I also can be shy and withhold that because I am afraid. I don't want to freak anybody out with my passion... So I struggle with that all the time.
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If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
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Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.
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No woman or girl is going to want to spend time looking at pretty dresses on the Internet. Vogue is going to be around for a long time to come.
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I love living around black people. Home is home. We suffer under racism and the physical deprivations that come with that, but beneath that, we form cultures and traditions that are beautiful.
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Going where no man has gone before is more difficult than it sounds. Our cousins and ancestors were no less curious than we are, and were perhaps bolder. This world is their tomb. You should look under the bed.
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Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be?
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All three of us just had our eye on what was happening around us, we were very observant to what people were doing in love situations, and what was happening in the world.
