Alex Haley Quotes
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It's my job to have ups and downs because it makes good music.
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When I first started writing songs, I never intended on singing. I didn't really consider myself a singer at all. I was just kind of recording the demo vocals as a holding place until someone else came and sang.
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When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what's wrong.
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To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.
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Is there any more encouraging sign than to see an Indian, who has never been to a university, like our friend Mr. Asutosh Dey here, for example, carrying out original work and finding it recognized by the foremost societies of the world?
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I don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me.
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When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.
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Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.
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Some talk shows have become so exploitive and tabloid, I wonder if I can believe some of their guests. Where do they find these guests, and why do they deserve air time?
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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts.
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A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.
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Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.
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By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
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Suppose that every prospective parent in the world stopped having children naturally, and instead produced clones of themselves. What would the world be like in another 20 or 30 years? The answer is: much like today. Cloning would only copy the genetic aspects of people who are already here.
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A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.
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I have deep emotions about the American people. If I were to cry for anything, I would cry for them and the policies that they're about to face.
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The hip hop industry is most likely owned by gays. I happen to think there's a gay mafia in hip hop. Not rappers - the editorial presidents of magazines, the PDs at radio stations, the people who give you awards at award shows.
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My specialty was baked potatoes with cheese melted over broccoli. I was also very good at melting cheese on bread.
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At lucky moments this emanation could overwhelm the spectator in such a way, that because of all sorts of associations in his thinking, he could finally be taken to those areas which also had moved me so deeply and made me think I should draw the attention of others to it.
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The one kind of person I have a lot of trouble understanding is the kind of person that says the existence of God or religion doesn't matter, it's not an important decision. I think it's vitally important; it's what all our lives are based on.
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A bad outfit can really get me down. If I'm wearing something really normal and boring, it's like torture.
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Picking a guitar was a lot easier than picking cotton.
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In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.
