Samuel Johnson Quotes
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
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I didn't grow up with musical influences in my family.
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Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
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At first, I found the music I was making really hard to find a home for. I felt like my attitude was really British, but not the actual sounds I was making. Back in 2003, when I made 'Galang,' there were no clubs that had an 'anything and everything' attitude.
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As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences.
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You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.
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I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
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I'm no producer's kid.
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The older I get, the more I realize the importance of maintaining an even temperament - not getting too emotional, focusing on the task at hand. You don't want to make a business deal based on your emotions.
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Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
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The actress they'd hired had refused to appear naked in front of the camera. I didn't like to appear naked either, but the first thing I did was take off my clothes and jump into the pool completely naked.
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Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.
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My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.
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Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me.
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I want to win football games.
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Make the wise man within you your living ideal.
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I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.
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Even when we were still fighting in the bush against the oppressive dictatorships of Idi Amin and Milton Obote, we introduced elections for the committees of the villages under our control.
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A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.
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When I was able to better live in the moment that I was in, I think that it really freed me.
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Truth of the matter is, jazz is American music. And that doesn't mean bebop. Jazz is really about improvising. All the music that's been created in America has been pretty much improvised... Whether it's hillbilly or rock n' roll for blues, it's basically jazz music... It's basically about another way of hearing what comes out of America.
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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
