Ziggy Marley Quotes
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If religion had a good purpose, then man would have created something great. But we're man: we mess up everything. We mess up nature. We mess up God. We take what is given to us and make it into what we think it should be.
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I love running in nature. I don't like running on the streets, I don't like running in the city, I don't like running on the concrete. I love running in nature, so Jamaica provides a lot of that for me.
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How come "fat chance" and "slim chance" mean the same thing?
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I grew up with coconuts as the main flavor in food in Jamaica. It's part of our culture.
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My father, we bumped heads when I was younger, much younger... I had different ideas that I shared with him. He didn't like them as much. He gets upset or whatever. I guess I had a strong opinion from when I was a little boy.
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Working on my own gave me a chance to take my time and experiment a lot.
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URGE is a grassroots charity. We organized to get some incubators to give to the hospital for the kids. We donate money to orphanages.
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The present is what slips by us while we're pondering the past and worrying about the future.
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Yoga is a great thing and meditation is also great to get connected to yourself more.
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People love me everywhere I go.
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I try to make my music interesting to me first, then hopefully other people will find it interesting, too.
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Social revolutions and group revolutions are good, and we need that, but we also need personal revolution - revolution within ourselves that change who we are as people.
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My dream is to live a good life and be loving, be close to God and be a good human being and bring peace to people.
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I was in my yard and thought that the tree was a living being. We take trees for granted. We don't believe they are as much alive as we are.
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So food is important part, not just in our physical well-being, but in our psychological well-being. The more chemicals that are in our food and the more outside of the way it is intended by nature, the more we are messing with things that we probably don't know the full effect of.
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It takes years to develop into the kind of human being you want to be.
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Success means different things to different people. To me, the greatest quality of successful human beings is the ability to love.
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It's that kind of in-born music thing - I could pick up the guitar and play something. It's not something I consciously do.
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When people come to Jamaica, we don't want them to think about the problems of Jamaica. So let them come be in their paradise.
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Feb 6 1945 St. Ann, Jamaica, Daddy was born. I remember us celebrating one of his birthdays in Jamaica at 56 Hope Road with him, no big superstar party, just us kids, Mommy, some cake, few laughs and that was it. Even if he wasn't known to the world on Feb 6th I would still think of him and in my heart say Happy Birthday Daddy. Love.
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I like doing nothing, actually. Doing nothing is better thing when I am not working.
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I want to be fulfilled in myself, rather than try to follow exactly in my father's footsteps.
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"I’m not Catholic, I’m not Orthodox…" and I wouldn’t even say Rastafarian, that still divides people, I don’t want to divide people so anything that I say is something that must be so big and great that it did encompass everyone and it’s love.
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If you keep hiding your true self, your life becomes like slow death. Once you become free from the lies and the hiding of yourself, then life becomes vibrant again.