Damian Marley Quotes
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Every ghetto you go to, Latinos and blacks are the two people that are together. We don't look at each other in any different way, like 'He's black; I'm Latino.' I look at us as one.
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I don't really take a step back too often to see what's going on.
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It was never the goal to be a solo performer. It was just something that made the most sense at the time.
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I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.
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I tend not to wear accessories. I'm not one of those gals with a drawerful of amazing jewelry. I don't even have my ears pierced! But I have one bracelet that never comes off my wrist.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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By patting somebody on the back, a boy or a girl, a professional dancer, male, female, it really makes people feel good and I know it certainly made me feel good.
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The idea behind a dish - the delight and the surprise - makes a difference. Great literature surprises and delights, and provokes us. It isn't just 'Here's the facts - boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl.' It's how you tell it.
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Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today.
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When you're the youngest and the only boy, you get spoilt but you get told you're spoilt so you don't get to enjoy it very much. I was the only man in the house because my parents divorced and my dad moved away when I was 13.
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Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.
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The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.
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Portraying visual impairment is difficult. I can see what's going on, but I have to act like I can see nothing. And this can be quite a challenge.
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I feel a responsibility to the fans who have paid to see me and I want to give as good a show as I possibly can.
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You see bands putting ads in the paper: 'drummer wanted'. I could never be in a set-up like that.
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I have never broken a contract in my career.
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If you don't stick up for what's yours, and defend what's yours... what are you?
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Money is a bubble that never pops. It's a consensus hallucination.
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I never wanted to be that person who leaves 'SNL' and nothing happens.
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We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby.
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There are no globalized, youth-led, grassroots social movements advocating for democratic culture across Muslim-majority societies. There is no equivalent of Al-Qaeda without the terrorism.
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My singing is part of me, like my stoutness, or my light hair, or my poor eyesight.
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I am not a political writer. I agree with Stieg Larsson and Henning Mankell, who are social writers. I can't write in that fashion. I am not good enough for that. What I am interested in is family dramas and why we are doing bad things to each other and what our motives are.
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Jamaica full of ghetto, but boy, I tell you: me never see it like that.
