Damian Marley Quotes
I can remember the first time I ever recorded my vocals on to a beat. Cat Coore from Third World - a legendary Jamaican band - had a little demo set up at his house. I'm very good friends with his eldest son, Shiah, who plays with me now. So we were rhyming over a track by the dancehall artist Peter Metro. I've still got it somewhere.
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I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion.
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In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.
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I'm married. I've been with my husband for six years. Now that I know what a healthy relationship is, I find I can write better about the unhealthiness of relationships.
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I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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A lot of actors know they want to be actors a little bit earlier on. I didn't even really start studying until I was about 22.
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The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
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Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.
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I think that for a child to be in a household... with a situation where the parents are not married, as in being one man and one woman, is not the best household for a child.
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I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.
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True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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Having two kids, I don't get out to see stand up much anymore.
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I don't have the activist temperament. I like listening to divergent points of view and hearing people out. I like getting along. I even like being liked, although activists of any stripe should get rid of that handicap at the outset.
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Music is my heart, but I see television and more movies in the next stage of my life.
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I think anytime that somebody that works for the government lies, yes, they should be removed.
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Anybody can do a deal. The tough part is doing the deal at the right time, being strategic.
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I'm not good at accepting help.
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Ireland cannot become the collector general for the world. We can only tax on profits generated in the country here.
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I do feel I have a responsibility to the youths. For real.
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Seek the opportunity to act on your ideas and dreams.
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Seeing something once is better than hearing about it a hundred times. Doing something once is better than seeing it a hundred times.
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I used to play chess when I was a kid and participate in national-level tournaments with the geekiest guys. This one time, I was losing terribly, so I batted my eyelashes and flirted as I asked for a draw. My dad just couldn't believe it. He thought, 'What have I created, a floozy?' But it worked!
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I can remember the first time I ever recorded my vocals on to a beat. Cat Coore from Third World - a legendary Jamaican band - had a little demo set up at his house. I'm very good friends with his eldest son, Shiah, who plays with me now. So we were rhyming over a track by the dancehall artist Peter Metro. I've still got it somewhere.
