Henry Saint Clair Fredericks (Taj Mahal) Quotes
I'm perceived as someone who goes out and searches for new music, but it was all present in my household.
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I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.
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North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
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It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
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I am a proud Zionist. I can tell you about every blossom that grows in this land. I know the history and the Bible.
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I'm not going to roll back anything. Nothing is going to change with respect to reproductive rights.
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The world is too violent right now.
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All lives have triumphs and tragedies, laughter and tears, and mine has been no different. What really matters is whether, after all of that, you remain strong and a comfort to your loved ones. I have tried to meet that test.
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Typically, when you have a depressed individual, they feel hopeless. They feel miserable. Their mind is racing, their heart is pounding. They feel anxious. They feel exhausted yet they can't sleep.
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Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.
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The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
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In the mess of moving from place to place, I skipped two grades in the space of one year.
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Really, I prefer not to read my early books. Not that I don't like them, but I don't recognize myself anymore, like an old actor watching himself as a young leading man.
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It's interesting because I think class is a heavy, heavy part of 'Moonlight,' and I think, in a certain way, through the sum of all these parts, it's become a commentary on the black experience in America.
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Fvery time Anthony and I are supposed to fight, the lines come out, and it's like we're dead even. It's like people don't know what to make of a fight between Daniel Cormier and Anthony Johnson, when in reality, it should be very easy to know what to make of a fight between me and Anthony Johnson.
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The child is pronounced pretty. I think it quite otherwise.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.
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I can sometimes feel like I'm an aggressive man inside. I'm not going to show that on social media.
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It was once religion which told us that we are all sinners because of original sin. It is now the ecology of our planet which pronounces us all to be sinners because of the excessive exploits of human inventiveness.
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I've been able to do what I love and what I'm passionate about my entire life. I made, you know, an insane amount of money playing baseball.
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I try to never look back at how I dressed in the first few seasons of 'Laguna Beach' because it was pretty bad... head-to-toe bad.
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I've always thought of myself as being extremely lucky. The idea is to keep that luck going. Headlining the Stanley was a real kick. I think it's the type of thing I could get used to.
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I wanted to look at the mentality that can breed that sort of intensity, that kind of cutthroat, pressure-cooker feeling, especially a form of music like jazz, that should be - or you'd think should be - all about liberation and improvisation and everything.
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I'm perceived as someone who goes out and searches for new music, but it was all present in my household.
