Henry Saint Clair Fredericks (Taj Mahal) Quotes
Taj has been described as having been designed by giants and finished by jewellers.
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I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.
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I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.
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Invention is not enough. Tesla invented the electric power we use, but he struggled to get it out to people. You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people.
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I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.
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I am a huge wrestling fan. I would say The Rock is my favorite person to watch for obvious reasons.
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Reform is the mission from which we shall not digress; it is an expression of belief and determination between us and our people. With the help of Allah, we will proceed forward in this promising national process within the natural progress of the life cycle and the development of people and nation.
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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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If I spend 10 days at home, I'll be dying to get back to the set. I love the thrill of a good dialogue, the buzz of shooting.
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It is a sore point, because you do have advantages if you have access to more than one language. You also have problems, because on bad days you don't trust yourself, either in your first or your second language, and so you feel like a complete halfwit.
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I do what I can do to help my defense.
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I got more bands and went on the road and turn down more movies than you would believe.
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I love to see my family together. That's what life is about. It's about family.
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You have to go where the good writing is.
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Every time you get into a new job, new location, you have an amazing opportunity in front of you. You get to play dumb for as long as people will allow you to play dumb. You get to ask all the dumb questions, you get to ask multiple people the dumb questions, and you get to make mistakes. That's how you stand out in the crowd.
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Strong women, that's who I really respect.
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No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.
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In life, everybody faces choices between doing what's popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what's lonely, difficult, and right. These decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful.
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.
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But you begin to feel as you go on working that unless painting proves its right to exist by being critical and self-judging, it has no reason to exist at all - or is not even possible. The canvas is a court where the artist is prosecutor, defendant, jury and judge. Art without a trial disappears at a glance.
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I consider myself a casualty, one of the many casualties of the war on terror.
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Taj has been described as having been designed by giants and finished by jewellers.
