Babyface (Kenneth Brian Edmonds) Quotes
If my life depended on being a social-media person in terms of talking myself up, I probably would be in trouble because - not that I wouldn't be able to step up to it - but I wouldn't love it. I wouldn't want to be that person; that wouldn't be my natural thing.
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Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.
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I've matured since joining United, on and off the field.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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Heard in full sound, the Gospels tell about the establishment of a theocracy, and portray what theocracy looks like with Jesus as king.
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I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.
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There will not be a billion-shekel cut to education on my watch.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible.
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My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.
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The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
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We put water down into the earth to push up gas, then we say, 'Ooh, we're having a water crisis.' This is foolishness, and this kind of foolishness, where we try to excuse human behavior, is dangerous.
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At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety.
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I try to say something about the human condition whenever I can when I'm lucky.
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At eight, he had once told his mother that he wanted to paint air.
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If my life depended on being a social-media person in terms of talking myself up, I probably would be in trouble because - not that I wouldn't be able to step up to it - but I wouldn't love it. I wouldn't want to be that person; that wouldn't be my natural thing.
