Willie Dixon Quotes
People have been brainwashed into believing that it's got to be down or it wouldn't be blues. But it's not so. It's got to be a fact or it wouldn't be blues.
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Being Bob Marley's son has done many things for me, in terms of having a career in music. I'm very proud of my music, and I'm very proud of where I'm from. People hear that I'm Bob Marley's son, and they turn on my music to listen just out of curiosity.
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Sometimes I try a Mai Tai. It's so fruity. It's a little embarrassing, but I like it.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work.
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Dress codes and gestures and attitudes have always inspired me, as has youth culture in general, although now I question it more. If you analyze youth cultures over history, there has always been something strict about them - you have to be like this or like that.
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You don't actually have control of the position people want you to be in. If they say, 'You king of the blacks,' you're king of the blacks - whether you like it or not.
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Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
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Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
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Roman's wife Sharon Tate had been murdered by Charles Manson the year before, but Roman had been through so much leaving the Warsaw ghetto that he was very strong and private.
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My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.
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Chile's mines are very dangerous; the country has a lot of earthquakes.
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People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.
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I'm really close to my family, and we talk through things.
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A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
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After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.
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The Russians obtained a number of plants under Lend-Lease, which had been authorized by Washington, that I thought were not justified for their war effort. They wanted them for postwar use.
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An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.
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My mom told me if I ever got a tattoo, she was going to take it off with a potato peeler.
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I shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.
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We gravitated to the idea of social entrepreneurs when it was a fairly nascent thing. We began to build the organization, focused on investing in and celebrating social entrepreneurs. Not long after that, we realized there was another opportunity to help bring them together and tell their stories.
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People have been brainwashed into believing that it's got to be down or it wouldn't be blues. But it's not so. It's got to be a fact or it wouldn't be blues.
