Clarence Benjamin Jones Quotes
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We all have these challenges and stereotypes that exist, but you can't let that hold you down... If that's the first thing you think about as a black woman - the challenge that lies ahead - you are thinking in the wrong direction, in my opinion.
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When you return to the same area a few times, you get that frequent rapport with the public and the fans of the music along with having a certain warmth when you walk onstage.
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I loved her. I still love her, though I curse her in my sleep, so nearly one are love and hate, the two most powerful and devasting emotions that control man, nations, life.
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Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.
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In an art school it's very hard to tell who is the best.
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I don't like having to be pushed into a box.
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What Spotify pays me is not even enough to pay the musicians playing with me or the people working on the discs. It's not working. Something is going to have to give.
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I have always thought of myself as an inventor first and foremost. An engineer. An entrepreneur. In that order. I never thought of myself as an employee. But my first jobs as an adult were as an employee: at IBM, and then at my first start-up.
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In Bombay, we have a fine concert hall. I think it is high time we built venues in Delhi and Calcutta, not only for western music, but also Indian music. It doesn't matter which party is in power; don't you think the capital of India should have a concert hall?
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I like to get a salad or fruit in me - just some good energy food - and then a plate a pasta with a breast of chicken.
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Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
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I feel quite fearless protecting the people I love.
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Before coming here I had a minor back problem and I thought whenever I play Pakistan I get a back problem.
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I played with Arthur Godfrey for about a year and a half.
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If for one whole day, quietly and determinedly, we were to give ourselves up to the ownership of Jesus and to obeying his orders, we should be amazed at its close to realize all he had packed into that one day.
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You must have faith in God.
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I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river Is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable.
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God isn't afraid of our doubts; He's way more concerned when we fake it.
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People lament that there's no roles being written for South Asian or Muslim characters. But their parents don't want their children to go into the entertainment field. You don't get it both ways.
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The Way is ever without action, yet nothing is left undone.
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We need to get to kids who have no idea what we do. We need to open the doors wide and let them in. There are many undiscovered voices out there - voices that, against all odds, can rise up and enrich this culture and perhaps change the very nature of the marketplace for the better.
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When God's finger points, God's hand will open the door.
