Willie Stargell (Pops) Quotes
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I was a little hesitant at first because there's so many ways you can get 'Straight Outta Compton' wrong. You know, it's such a great story; it's such a classic tale. I was a little nervous 'cause it's like a very narrow road to success with that type of story - you got to get it right - but when I read it, I was pleasantly surprised.
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But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.
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I think that the mistakes that anyone can make going on dates is probably not being themselves because you can only trick people for so long.
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I've always loved makeup. I'm very, very girly. I used to sit and watch my mum get ready. My mum is very glamorous, and I remember sitting on her bed and watching her apply her makeup, get dressed, and do her hair.
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Surprisingly, I'm not a fan of guns or anything like that!
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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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In international relations, you don't base your work on hope.
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We're not a nation divided: we're a nation broken, and anything broken can be fixed.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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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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But I think we need the international market.
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I have an appetite to always learn.
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I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment.
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I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
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Approaching people for work has not worked for me. People who came to me with work has worked.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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I'm a plodder, one foot in front of the other. Life is all about understanding that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And it's your ability with how you deal with that adversity that ultimately affects your success.
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I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.
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I planted the seed, now you must work a lot otherwise the tiny plant will die.
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Men make opportunity. Every great industrial achievement has been the result of individual effort - the practical development of a dream in the mind of an individual.
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Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.
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I can do what I want to do, lucky me. But when these people are coming at me and asking these things, they don't really care about me. And I have felt like there were all these people who just wanted to use me.
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Now the best thing is to put attention to your Spirit. If you start putting your attention to Spirit, the sweetness of the Spirit itself will make the whole thing very sweet and beautiful.
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I'm a God-fearing man who worships with my heart and with my life.
