Jazzie B (Trevor Beresford Romeo) Quotes
Personally I was just sick of the mimicry of American culture that was going on because it wasn't natural for us. We had grown up listening to reggae music in our communities. People were enjoying what we were doing with out music - we didn't have to work to sell it to them.
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Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.
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I do lots of weird voices and I kind of act out my raps. That's something that's always been in me.
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More people are using the Internet and searching for information and things to buy, and they want to know where these places are.
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Sometimes guessing is the best you can do. In the real world, we guess all the time and it serves us well.
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I think my least healthy habit is running around too much. And I think I'm getting better about it as I'm getting older.
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I believe our only hope for the future is to adopt a new conception of human ecology, one in which we start to reconstitute our concept of the richness in human capacity.
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To be at once exceedingly wealthy and good is impossible.
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No human endeavour can ever be wholly good... it must always have a cost.
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My thing is, when I come across somebody, when I think they're super cute or handsome, I can't play along with that because sometimes they take it as something like, 'She wants me.'
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Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
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Every woman who vacates a place in the teachers' ranks and enters an unusual line of work, does two excellent things: she makes room for someone waiting for a place and helps to open a new vocation for herself and other women.
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We can't keep begging or expecting people to give us an opportunity to make a movie or to represent our culture in the right way. They're not from or neighborhoods and communities so of course they can't truly relate to our experience. It's our responsibility to properly protect our people and to properly give them opportunities for employment.
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In Germany representatives of the Islamic communities try to hijack children who are born here, along with the entire Islamic community, to prevent them from being influenced by the society which has taken them in. Children born here are like blank sheets on which you can write European or Islamic texts. Muslim representatives want to raise their children as if they don't even live in Europe.
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The first rule of holes: When you're in one stop digging.
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I believe what goes on the road stays on the road.
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I did not become successful in my work through embracing or engaging in celebrity culture. I never signed away my privacy in exchange for success.
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Personally I was just sick of the mimicry of American culture that was going on because it wasn't natural for us. We had grown up listening to reggae music in our communities. People were enjoying what we were doing with out music - we didn't have to work to sell it to them.
