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 loved politics and, I confess, I enjoyed politicians immensely.
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I don't want to see that two-tier Senegal, that two-tier Africa, when you have those at the top and those at the bottom, people who are hungry, people who do not have enough to eat.
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We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.
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What's right with America and what's right with Islam have a lot in common. At their highest levels, both worldviews reflect an enlightened recognition that all of humankind shares a common Creator - that we are, indeed, brothers and sisters.
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I'm a God-fearing man who worships with my heart and with my life.
