Cleve Jones Quotes
During those days when you're exhausted and during those days when you're frustrated, during those days when you're being attacked by your own people for doing what you think is right, remember you're part of a progression that goes back a long time of ordinary people who are doing their best to make it a better world.
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We lived in Atlanta for a couple of years, and had a lot of fun, but my best work happens when I isolate myself. It's all about turning inward.
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I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.
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Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.
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There are charms made only for distant admiration.
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We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us.
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Make-up is an extension of your clothes.
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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
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Basically, my mother couldn't hold a tune and when I was a baby, a rather tactless baby, I would ask her not to sing... you can't get to sleep if someone is singing off key nearby.
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Boxing combines, in perfect proportion, strength, speed, and endurance. Normally, most sports are either about one of the three: either about speed or endurance or strength. Boxing combines all three of them. It's really intense.
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All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!
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I have been through a lot of medical trauma. I was diagnosed with breast cancer .
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I think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty.
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Lots of people have gone from public housing to do great things in the world and have a tremendous sense of duty to their fellow man because of it.
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I want us all to fulfill our greatest potential. To find our calling, and summon the courage to live it.
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During those days when you're exhausted and during those days when you're frustrated, during those days when you're being attacked by your own people for doing what you think is right, remember you're part of a progression that goes back a long time of ordinary people who are doing their best to make it a better world.
