Alexander Pope Quotes
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Maybe I'll learn how, but the only thing I can do is turn down parts that would hurt my conscience.
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Saddam Hussein was a horrible man, and I am pleased he is no longer running Iraq. But the war was wrong.
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The less I talk about being black, the better.
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The gods behold all righteous actions.
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I think if I was going to be someone for a day, I would want to be a performer, someone big, like Rihanna. I'd want to feel the energy of being on stage. I've always found that very interesting.
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So when you start touring, women are definitely going to check you out first.
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Something like 'Rust and Bone' would be a dream. Very pared down. 'Orphan Black' is such a challenge. I just need something that isn't as full-on intense as that.
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The year the bus drivers went on strike in Pittsburgh, I was twenty-three and living on the edge of the city in a neighborhood that was on the verge of becoming a ghetto. I had just been fired from a good job as a cartographer in a design studio where I had worked for about four months.
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I feel like my life experience is that of an outsider. Let me explain: my parents are from Panama, and they moved to the United States the year after I was born. They moved into an all-white neighborhood, where the previous black family had a cross burned on their lawn.
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I don't normally have time to read, so when I go away I like to take a few books.
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Sometimes the song title comes with the songs, other times you just sorta make something up afterwards.
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People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.
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Saying the Washington Post is just a newspaper is like saying Rasputin was just a country priest.
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I sang the National Anthem at Dodger Stadium - at a baseball game - which was crazy; there was, like, 60,000 people there, which is a huge deal in America - singing the National Anthem.
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It feels great to win and I can't be more thankful to the Lord for walking me through every step. God was and is so faithful every time.
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It's not just the small-potatoes post-9/11 Homeland spending that feels a little off mission. It's the big-ticket stuff too.
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The experience I had seeing Star Wars for the first time was mind-blowing. Eleven is a great age to have your mind blown. I will never forget that feeling of seeing 'Long time ago, in a galaxy, far, far away' fade out. It was the first time a movie made me believe in another world that way.
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Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn't white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans.
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I wrote poetry before I wrote songs, and T.S. Eliot was my inspiration. I love his honesty and try to bring that to my own songwriting.
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Oh, everybody wears a mask. We all put our best foot forward. We all try and make a statement, I'm not saying that's bad.
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At every word a reputation dies.