Aberjhani Quotes
Mainstream media's representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black men's lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an individual or a nation.
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If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.
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Mum and Dad split up when I was nine. We upped and moved from London to Sussex, and suddenly I went from an urban life to nothing in the countryside - with a new father and new life.
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The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.
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I don't have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older.
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I'm ambidextrous when I eat. But playing tennis right-handed - I can't do it. I'm clueless.
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I just want to do my job.
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Biggie was a lyrical genius: he was a musical painter with words. As he rapped, you would see the picture come to life as you heard his story. You hear a lot of rappers rap; you hear a lot of singers sing, but you don't see the movie in your head the way you do when you hear Biggie rap.
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Positive thinking will let you use the ability which you have, and that is awesome.
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In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
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I'm one of those foolish people who believe the glory days of the record industry aren't behind us. They're actually ahead of us.
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Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
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Our responsibility for BLM lands is multiple-use, meaning a variety of needs and uses.
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Anyone can make an article longer; the skill is keeping it tight and lean.
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Typically on a TV series, the writers on a show are writing for their life almost every episode. When someone sits down to write a Netflix show, they know there's going to be a 13th hour.
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I want to make the music that's not there anymore. I'm so passionate about the singing voice... What I'm trying to do actually with my album is show that it's my voice that's leading. It's my voice that's the instrument.
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It's hard to say, 'I don't believe in God.' I would love to know if God exists. But it's a very difficult thing for me to believe.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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I think that life in Israel is sometimes bigger than the movies.
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I find that I put my body in my work when I am at a particularly difficult or joyous point because I want to feel that moment.
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When we start to write for a new record, we never really know what we're doing. We don't come into the room with a set of ideas, but miraculously, a song comes out of it.
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Media reporting denied privacy to anybody doing what I do for a living. It was no longer possible to work on your picture in privacy.
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This moment is timeless, yet it is always new.
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Mainstream media's representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black men's lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an individual or a nation.
