Ziggy Marley Quotes
The last thing my father told me was: 'On your way up, take me up. On your way down, don't let me down.' A father telling his son that puts some responsibility on my shoulders. He told me that, and I take it very seriously.
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I'm ready to stretch my legs. I'm ready to jump in the ring.
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Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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In terms of achievement, the pride is very important to me. It keeps me going every day. The money is always second to me.
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
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I now believe that major labels can only work with people who care more about fame and money than the quality of the art they produce.
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The greatest thing you can give a child is confidence.
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I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh.
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It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.
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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.
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Glamour is about feeling good in your own skin.
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What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.
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I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.
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There is no kind of music I don't listen to. Everything good is interesting. I am as happy with a Bach fugue as I am with a record by Thelonious Monk.
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I train to fight five rounds, but if we can end the fight in the first round, it's even better.
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You don't want to be first, right? You want to be second or third. You don't want to be - Facebook is not the first in social media. They're the third, right? Similarly, you know, if you look at Steve Jobs' history, he's never been first.
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With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It's made up of pioneers, the beginners. That's where the action is.
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Every time a pundit or elected official is on any TV news program, it should be a polite formality to mention that GE has made such and such billions off the war in Iraq by selling arms or that Murdoch is a right-wing activist with a clear stake in who wins and who taxes his profits the least.
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I was very unfamiliar with YouTube; I thought it was the place for dog and cat videos.
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Sensitive, humbug. Everybody thinks I'm sensitive. Wait until they hear my new album.
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It's time for women to wake up, to use the power of the vote, to honor the suffragists who chained themselves to the White House fence so that women could vote.
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My father's really fluent in French, but I can't speak at all. I actually took it twice in school already and failed both times!
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The thing with stand-up is, I really enjoyed it, but I kind of loathed it as well. It makes me feel physically sick.
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The last thing my father told me was: 'On your way up, take me up. On your way down, don't let me down.' A father telling his son that puts some responsibility on my shoulders. He told me that, and I take it very seriously.
