Anthony J. D'Angelo Quotes
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I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture.
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For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century.
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When I was about 13, I met the coolest, chicest young woman I had ever seen. She was a neighbor of mine who became a fashion designer and had a small design studio. She taught me so many things about style and fashion. I had always loved making things, so when she told me about her career in fashion, I knew I had found my path.
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I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me.
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Any talk of me engaging in a conspiracy against Pakistan is completely baseless.
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It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
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I guess I still feel that I'm a comedian; if I had to pick one thing that I feel like I could do, it would be that. That doesn't mean that I like it, but I feel that's what I am.
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Today we know that centralization and big bureaucracies have not, as promised, been the answer for promoting better opportunities for society.
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I have always wanted to be liked and respected.
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Growing up, I thought I was going to be Madonna. I wanted to be a pop star. I wanted to dance and sing.
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I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.
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All government, of course, is against liberty.
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That thing, 'You must stay together for the kids', is out of fashion but is right. It's not arguing parents that children don't like, it is having one parent.
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I found I had the ability to do comedy. My timing was really inborn.
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Kids come out of the chute liking science. They ask, 'How come? Why? What's this?' They pick up stuff to examine it. We might not call that science, but it's discovering the world around us.
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Country music is some of the best-written music in the world, so yeah, one day, I would keep my mind open to doing a country record.
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My role on television is one of helping people reexamine the assumptions that they hold. I regard Dr. King. You would never hear me get up and speak without in some way, shape or form, referencing, Dr. King.
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Originally, 'The Windup Girl' started as a short story - a very gnarly, complicated short story set in Bangkok that didn't work very well.
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In the scattered settlements of this Diocese, schools and Churches are of necessity for many years few in number, and multitudes of both sexes are growing up in great ignorance.
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I grew up hearing about the walking undead. I had a fascination with it as a child.
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Who's to say we can't have many loves and many identities? we can hold more in our heads than we think.
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If the theory turns out to be right, that will be tremendously thick and tasty icing on the cake.
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It’s really simple actually. It’s just, try and make people happy. Maybe you have to learn with time. Maybe you have to learn it the hard way. But as long as you learn it, you’re going to make the world a better place.
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Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find.
