Kaki King Quotes
I get why people want to come see me play guitar, but I still don't understand why people want to interview me.
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If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a horse without a bridle, a boat without a helm. The more Western learning he possesses, the more hateful of China he will become. Even if he becomes a capable man of vast learning, how can he be of any use to the state?
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There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.
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Between their rise in the thirteenth century and their sudden fall in the seventeenth, when the line abruptly ended, the Medicis produced three popes, two queens, and many Florentine rulers, and they supported the work of Galileo, Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Botticelli - a veritable parade of geniuses.
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The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.
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I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.
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I'd feel bad pretending my life was anything other than pretty good, so I do the role as well as I can and then I go home, have a cup of tea, see my family and friends, and appreciate what I've got.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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I have a great office.
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
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One person goes off and works in Houston the other person goes off to London and you're on the phone to each other and somebody is paying you to kiss somebody else. It's very bizarre being an actor.
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My brain is just so busy. I'm inattentive; I'm a daydreamer: the space cadet kind.
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A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
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Death may simply be an alteration in consciousness, a transition for continued life in a nonmaterial form.
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In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in Bosnia, I drove an armoured vehicle, thousands of miles.
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You have to train people how to be business innovators. If you don't train them, the quality of the ideas that you get in an innovation marketplace is not likely to be high.
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Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.
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I give people style tips in Whole Foods. Wherever I go, people want to ask me questions all the time, and I'm more than happy to answer them. I love talking to people.
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Walking around becomes actually difficult. But the walking process is the oldest natural form of movement. It puts you literally in touch with the earth and the weather around you and allows you to get into conversation with people as you move, which seldom happens in the other ways we move.
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Another thing is, people lose perspective. It is a cultural trait in America to think in terms of very short time periods. My advice is: learn history. Take responsibility for history. Recognise that sometimes things take a long time to change. If you look at your history in this country, you find that for most rights, people had to struggle. People in this era forget that and quite often think they are entitled, and are weary of struggling over any period of time
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I love my cats more than I love most people. Probably more than is healthy.
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I get why people want to come see me play guitar, but I still don't understand why people want to interview me.
