Willie Wells (The Devil) Quotes
I was branded a Negro in the States and had to act accordingly. They wouldn't even give me a chance in the big leagues because I was a Negro, yet they accepted every other nationality under the sun.
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I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.
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The truth about people at every economic level of life is you get those who are kind and who are not, those who are greedy, whether they be rich or poor. That's a common thread through humanity on any street you go to.
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I've really been writing a lot of country songs. I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind,' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.
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Television is democracy at its ugliest.
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Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.
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My personal philosophy is that people should be extremely selfish for the first half of their life and extremely unselfish for the second half because then they can do the most good.
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When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.
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When people are poor, they find ways of making things taste like fish.
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Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.
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If you aren't born here, to be a real New Yorker, you have to bring your talent, be a successful mentor, and support the New Yorkers who made the city by giving back.
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I was thinking about how we're so in touch with our image now. That conception of ourselves, in a very physical sense, can be oppressive. You find people wanting to be in dark places, not really see themselves, see themselves as a filtered image. A curated image.
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Tall, sandy blonde, with sort of blue eyes, skinny in places, fat in others. An average gal.
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More than 30 years ago, when I had embarked upon the fight against child labour, it was not even considered an issue worth any discussion. It was accepted as a way of life in India, much like it was in other countries. Today, no country or business or society can throw this issue away.
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Fantasy isn't something you run out of.
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In some areas I am more noted for reading then I am for cookies!
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I'm an incredibly intelligent, insightful human being.
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They say I'm insane because I need to have so much creative control. They say I'm unmanageable, but I'm not. I just know what I like. I'm obsessed with it. If you can't control it, that's like having somebody else paint your pictures. How could you do that? I never could.
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As an artist, you want to play around with mediums and see if you can get the point across in different way.
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As we increasingly become aware of the One Life breathing in each brother form of life, we learn the meaning of compassion, which literally means to 'suffer with' ... How does [the] self cause the desire which causes suffering?...by the illusion of separateness, the unawareness of One.
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Everything you want to know about a fighter is in his eyes. The look in his eyes tells the truth.
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Your faith will not grow by chance, but by choice.
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I was branded a Negro in the States and had to act accordingly. They wouldn't even give me a chance in the big leagues because I was a Negro, yet they accepted every other nationality under the sun.
