Lenny Kravitz Quotes
I'm half Jewish, I'm half black, I look in-between. I dress funny. I play all these different styles of music on one record. It's like, What is he doing?
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The first job I ever had was at a pool-liner-manufacturing plant. Minimum wage was $4.25, and that's what I was making. It was this huge, hot, un-air-conditioned factory staffed with all women and me. This is in Georgia, during the summertime, so it was pretty ridiculous.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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What people can survive and what they don't survive is shocking to me. Someone can go to Iraq and be blown to bits and survive. Someone can trip and fall on the street and they die – that's that.
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Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
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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'm really proud that the LGBT community has gotten behind me because, as I said, I am part of the community, so I do as much as I possibly can for our community and for our rights, so it's nice that everyone is supporting me as well.
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'Baahubali's success augurs well for the Telugu film industry as a whole. It has opened up new markets.
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We almost need a revolution in the culture of our thinking about football.
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I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.
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My education was very tough.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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Leaks are not the problem; they are the symptom. They reveal a disconnect between what people want and need to know and what they actually do know. The greater the secrecy, the more likely a leak.
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In a very weak economy, when you say 'cut government spending,' what you mean is you're laying off school teachers and you're de-funding various programs that put money into the economy. This means you have more unemployed people that then draw unemployment benefits and don't pay taxes.
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Democratic strategists and operatives should not design a strategy based off today's conditions. They should be setting a strategy for where the trajectory of polling is headed.
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The same myths are told in every culture, and they might swap out details, but it's still the same story. It's the same story, but with a different face.
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But I'm really into old music - bluesy, soulful singers, like Etta James, Ray Charles, and Aretha Franklin. I wouldn't have minded being born in the 1960s!
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I'm half Jewish, I'm half black, I look in-between. I dress funny. I play all these different styles of music on one record. It's like, What is he doing?
