Ab-Soul (Herbert Anthony Stevens IV) Quotes
My main concern is making the connection with my listeners and making records that the whole world can sing. That's what makes me happy.
Quotes to Explore
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Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own appointment, are in direct rebellion against the kingdom of God.
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I am not a 'defender' of the September 11 attacks, but simply pointing out that if U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.
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Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.
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I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.
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The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.
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The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact that all men sin does not basically affect the problem of suffering.
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We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.
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To me, it's just like, if you have talent, and you're lucky enough to find where you fit, and you work with the right people, it's not exalted at all.
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Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top.
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I'm from Georgia, and everybody gathers around food in the South.
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The girls want to see the rips on your stomach - they like that.
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When I finally decided to do the show, I only had two weeks to learn the choreography and the songs in French.
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It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100 years later.
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Many's the dead author whose body of work has been marred by overzealous publishers or family members. If this happens to me, I vow to seek out the responsible parties and haunt them to the point of death.
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I understood public relations and always maintained a high profile.
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I never Tweet about my daughter. Never. I just want to be respectful of her privacy. My job as a mom is to know when to open my mouth and when not to.
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You can't always measure the effects of activist work; you just have to wish and pray that the message gets through.
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The job of arguing with the umpire belongs to the manager, because it won't hurt the team if he gets thrown out of the game.
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I was always self-conscious about the fact that I didn't have as much comedy experience as other people at 'SNL,' and I kept thinking they were going to realize they'd made a mistake by hiring me.
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The world is a complex, interconnected, finite, ecological–social–psychological–economic system. We treat it as if it were not, as if it were divisible, separable, simple, and infinite. Our persistent, intractable global problems arise directly from this mismatch.
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This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising.
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Politicians are good listeners. Because if they're not, they aren't politicians for very long.
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Every time I sit with our general manager at a baseball game, and there's number-cruncher and statistician guy - I'm sitting around - they start talking about stuff, and I say, 'What's that? I've never heard of that one before.'
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My main concern is making the connection with my listeners and making records that the whole world can sing. That's what makes me happy.
