Ahmad Balshe (Belly) Quotes
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I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.
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Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.
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I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.
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I don't spend a lot on holidays, but have been very fortunate to travel extensively through doing various challenges around the world. The best place I've ever been is Argentina.
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You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.
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How can it be said we should use only constitutional means in our struggle, when all resistance is illegal and we have no way to change the brutal realities of the racism regime?
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We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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When I finished touring 'Fur and Gold,' I was just like, 'What am I doing? What do I have? Where is my home?' I didn't really know where it was, so I went to New York to try and make it there.
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Why I got into music was James Taylor, so to see him be a real down-to-earth guy that's unbelievably talented... then to hear him sing those lyrics of 'What I'm Thankful For,' which is a song Ms. Yearwood and I got to write together, that was definitely a highlight of my recording life.
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The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
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I just try to attack the rim as hard as I can. Try to get the crowd pumped up a little bit.
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When studios start telling me why a particular film project won't work, I remember 'Rocky.' I remember that the biggest success Bob Chartoff and I have had was a film nobody wanted to make.
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Whites, like ourselves, belong to our country. They are compatriots, fellow citizens... we see them as Africans.
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I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.
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My parents don't press it but, you know, they're into good grades.
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I would never write something that made me uncomfortable. I'm not sure it's even possible.
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Elvis is not so difficult as Johnny Cash because his voice is so distinctive. If you try to copy Johnny Cash, it's just going to sound dumb.
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I'm helping people think the clarinet is cool.
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I've been scared and I've liked not hanging on to stuff where I know that I'm in my comfort zone.
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If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.
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I left Real Madrid for the same reason Di Maria did. We work hard but only others get the praise.
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I as an artist, as an individual, I have a certain affect on people.
