Linton Kwesi Johnson Quotes
I have never, ever sought validation from the arbiters of British poetic taste.
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I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him.
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There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal service will make the music industry way bigger than it's ever been before.
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I did not want to be the best black man of the year; I wanted to be the best man of the year.
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I don't ever want to be sad about my life.
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If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.
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Under so much pressure and the situation that I was in, that was the personality that came across with me.
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As America's head coach, President Obama needs to make some big and smart adjustments to jump-start economic growth and business investment, stimulate job creation, and get wages up for ordinary Americans.
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When I don't have a good time making music, I think of quitting a lot. I really do. I can create something else. I'll do something else.
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I seem to always inspire a strong reaction one way or the other.
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I'm always inspired when there's a robustness to the material in front of me.
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I don't think victory over death... is anything so superficial as a person fulfilling their normal span of life. It can be twofold; a victory over death by the man who faces it for himself without fear, and a victory by those who, loving him, know that death is but a little thing compared with the fact that he lived and was the kind of person he was.
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That’s the trouble with people like them, I suppose; whenever you think you’re detecting the first signs of them starting to behave responsibly, it’s just them being even more devious and underhand than usual.
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When I was a child, I used to think that rabbits were gnomes, and that if I held my breath and stayed quite still, I should see the fairy queen.'. Indicating with a reserved gesture that this was just the sort of loony thing I should have expected her to think as a child, I returned to the point.
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For night's swift dragons cut the clouds full fast,And yonder shines Aurora's harbinger;At whose approach ghosts, wandering here and there,Troop home to churchyards.
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How do I play the princess thing? I don't, really. I don't like talking about it much and find it annoying when people say things like, 'Oh, you're the princess.' One of my best friends jokingly says, 'Hi, Princess,' and I say, 'Shut up.' It is one of the things that bugs me most in the world.
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But wishing our Kansas soldiers 'God speed' is not enough. We need to comfort, care for, and protect their families. And we should ease the financial burdens that these families often face.
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The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.
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As for those whose role it is to love us – I mean, relatives and in-laws – It's a different tune. They find the right word, but it's usually the one that wounds.
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A Democrat has to show the toughness to govern. People don't doubt that Republicans will be tough.
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I love the fact that there are also women out there that don't have a choice and they must go to work and they still have to raise the kids. Thank goodness that we value those people too.
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Find something that you love to do, and find a place that you really like to do it in. I found something I loved to do. I'm a mechanical engineer by training, and I loved it. I still do. My son is a nuclear engineer at MIT, a junior, and I get the same vibe from him. Your work has to be compelling. You spend a lot of time doing it.
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To get our economy back on track and keep it functioning properly without the problems of our financial institutions, we need reasonable regulations that will protect Main Street while at the same time allow Wall Street to do what it does best - make money for American investors.
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I have never, ever sought validation from the arbiters of British poetic taste.
