Musiq Soulchild Quotes
I don't want to just do what people classify as 'neo-soul' 'cause everybody don't listen to neo-soul. I want to make music for everybody. I'm always trying to incorporate new elements into what I do.
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Karaoke is something that's near and dear and very close to my heart. I was a karaoke host when I was working my way through university. I was a full-time student and karaoke was my night job.
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Animals keep you company when you're really lonely. It helps because when you have a friend around who always likes you no matter what - it's harder to feel bad or down.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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Leaving all the glamour and air-kissing aside, at the end of the day, fashion is about operations and getting things done. The best way to be successful, therefore, is to learn from the people who do it best.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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I like the condition of being an outsider, just passing through.
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You who speak languages, you are such liars.
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Women just love to shop.
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Modern secular thought has its own dualism: It treats only the physical world as knowable and testable, while locking everything else - mind, spirit, morality, meaning - into the realm of private, subjective feelings. The so-called fact/value split.
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I like second chances. I've given people second chances. You have fall-outs with friends, and forgiveness is a great thing to have. It's not easy to forgive. I definitely don't forget, but I do forgive.
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I was born in Iran, which has a predominantly Muslim population, and I have relatives who are devout Muslims, so I know what it means to be judged based on your appearance and what you're wearing. But your ethnicity and your clothing do not define who you are.
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Private education can give you confidence, which is marvellous; a sense of entitlement isn't.
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It's very rare that things are true about yourself that are on the Internet. It's just sad sometimes. So you definitely try and stay away from it as much as possible.
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The more that everyone has access to the same educational opportunities, the more society will tend to accept some receiving disproportionate rewards. After all, they themselves have a chance to be winners.
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I feel like, in general in my work life, my main goal has been to just be in a situation where I'm not bored with my job. That's been the entire principle. Got my wish.
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There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
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You need to find the size of performance that's appropriate to the material, appropriate to the shot, or appropriate to the scene.
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I never went to college - I barely got out of high school.
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We have become more and more not a nation of athletes but a nation of spectators.
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Especially in the day and age now with social media and cameraphones and things like that, you always have to act like you're being watched.
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I've got to be active in life, and it's the same when I'm doing stunts in a movie: I'll do anything.
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I don't want to just do what people classify as 'neo-soul' 'cause everybody don't listen to neo-soul. I want to make music for everybody. I'm always trying to incorporate new elements into what I do.
