Henry Saint Clair Fredericks (Taj Mahal) Quotes
My grandparents on my father's side came to this country from the Caribbean with a strong connection to Africa and no shame about it.
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By the end of 2008, clearly the Al Qaeda and Sunni insurgency had been relatively stabilized. And in the Al Qaeda's mind, they were defeated.
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming.
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I always focused on being an actor. I did stand-up briefly, but I also did a lot of dramatic work. But since I've been on 'The Daily Show,' people think I'm a comedian. That's not how I see myself.
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When I pull into a city and I rent a car and it's Nashville, or it's London, or I'm driving in the taxi to the hotel, and on comes one of my songs, it's like, 'Oh my God, they're still playing these songs on the radio.' And you still feel tearful and very grateful that somebody still likes these songs that you made up.
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Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.
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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
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I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.
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I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
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Write for yourself. That's it. And write every day.
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There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.
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It is so important for girls and boys to have a female, strong superhero to look up to.
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It seems the most logical thing in the world to believe that the natural resources of the Earth, upon which the race depends for food, clothing and shelter, should be owned collectively by the race instead of being the private property of a few social parasites.
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There are Anarchists in other parts of the world who are unable to, comprehend the position of the Spanish Anarchists. I do not pretend to censor these Anarchists.
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This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.
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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
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I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.
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My country is in the toilet. And when my country is in the toilet, the world is in the toilet.
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When you die, we go back to the white energy of all the white energy: white heat that's flung against the sky and becomes a star.
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Pageants were a platform for me, and they helped me get to where I am today. You suddenly stop being just another girl, and people want to listen to what you have to say.
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Until 'Moonlight,' I had never seen one black man cook for another on screen. But I wanted the characters to be free of 'groundbreaking' or 'never before.' We were ascribed those things. They weren't the point.
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My grandparents on my father's side came to this country from the Caribbean with a strong connection to Africa and no shame about it.
