Henry Saint Clair Fredericks (Taj Mahal) Quotes
I just worked my own personal thoughts into my music, and just kept at it until I found a way in.
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What was once underground is now coming to the surface.
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I'd assumed that a deal was a deal when Princeton admitted me, but I was wrong. The price of getting in - to the university itself, and to the great world it promised to open up - was an endless dunning for nebulous services that weren't included in the initial quote.
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The Doobie Brothers are one of my favorites of all time.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.
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I'm doing my best to mindfully raise my son to feel safe and encouraged to express himself.
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I had done some TV movies that were great experiences but, no, I wasn't looking to do a series.
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I love Quentin Tarantino; I love Harmony Korine, Larry Clarke.
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Any time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on our way.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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Most of my songs have names of people I've met or are dear to me. There are people who have privacy issues and about people knowing about their private life. But for me, I like to include few special names and few details about them to make the song very special to me.
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I always think it's because of you know hard work, hard training. And if Susie's training hard, you know, why can't I train hard to get a world record. I'm doing the same thing.
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I'm less interested in how people are following each other and more interested in how they are following topics and tweets themselves. People are following more key words and concepts and more ideas and acting on those rather than individuals or organizations.
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Anytime you do something in this arena, whether it's public records or ethics, it's not like throwing a stone in a quiet pond. It's like throwing a boulder.
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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Frankly, we actresses are so much in a hurry. We feel we have very few years to shine in our career, so we neglect our personal life. But for me, both aspects are equally important. I don't want to grow old and have regrets.
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LazyTown' is not a TV property, but a lifestyle brand for children.
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In my view, it was no accident that Nelson Mandela was chosen by God to lead the people of South Africa. There are very few people who could be imprisoned, kept away from their family and loved ones, and exit that same prison with such a powerful spirit of love and a desire for reconciliation.
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Resting beneath the mighty Communist regime is a civil society that remains weak. It doesn't have much courage and is not very sophisticated. As a civil society it is still in a nascent stage, and this is why we mus not expect it, in the near term, to produce a political organization that might replace the Communist regime.
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Personally, I'm a V-neck guy.
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Economic disasters or foolish wars are hardly guaranteed to bring about large-scale individual self-examination or renew the appeal of truly participatory democracy.
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I just worked my own personal thoughts into my music, and just kept at it until I found a way in.
