Henry Saint Clair Fredericks (Taj Mahal) Quotes
As a kid, I always felt connected to Africa; it was something I was very proud of.
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Sometimes people fear the truth. They'd rather not speak to you than know what you really think.
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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.
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When I recently spent a night at a homeless shelter, I was dismayed that members of the middle class had moved in and that earning above the minimum wage did not protect adults from having to share a room with dozens of others.
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There is total unanimity that the most serious threat facing the United States and Israel is a nuclear-armed Iran.
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Actors play different characters in every project they do. Though it has nothing to do with my craft, the red carpet gives me the opportunity to show who I really am and be myself.
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When I'm ready, I plan to adopt. I still believe in family.
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I don't want to come off as one of those artists that's not down to earth and real.
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Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. 'Forbidden' is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. It's there to nourish your body.
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I used to just sign papers and not pay no attention to what I'm signing.
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I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
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I don't think about fights that didn't happen.
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I personally don't think ginger men have a habit of being attractive. We have to make ourselves seem attractive by doing stuff.
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I go to see maybe seven films a year at the most, and since I only go to see the best, it follows that I very rarely see my own.
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I am a good, strong word giver; I am a jealous guard of my own secrets. Freedom is the rule; I am hungry for one good thing I can do.
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The great thing in life is efficiency. If you amount to anything in the world, your time is valuable, your energy precious. They are your success capital, and you cannot afford to heedlessly throw them away or trifle with them.
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I get mad quick and and go off at the handle quick.
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When children are hungry, sleepy from a night spent fighting untreated asthma, or hobbled by symptoms of undiagnosed illnesses, they are less likely to do well in school.
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The mid-day meal is a well-intentioned scheme and has to be implemented effectively.
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Unless someone truly has the power to say no, they never truly have the power to say yes.
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You can't win if you're chasing the wrong problem.
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I had had a father whose shoes I could never fill, against whom I would never measure up; yet, I felt no pressure do so.
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I frankly doubt, moreover, whether the fiercely proud men who adopted our Fourth Amendment would have allowed themselves to be subjected, on mere suspicion of being armed and dangerous, to such indignity.
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Of his new book, Don says: “It might be the greatest book ever written. I don’t think anybody is going to read a book again after they read my new one. I think God is proud of me. I am going to make a killing off this thing and I’m going to use the money to go to space.
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As a kid, I always felt connected to Africa; it was something I was very proud of.
