Anthony Hamilton Quotes
I do want to sell as many records and win as many awards as I can. The awards though, they don't necessarily determine if you're good or not. I know that now.
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.
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I just want to stay creative, share my ideas and see where it all leads.
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I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.
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One of my favorite episodes was the one in which Homer grew hair. That was a very unique episode, since there was a gay secretary, but that wasn't even the issue of the show-the issue was Homer's image changing because he had hair.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.
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In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
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You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.
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For singers, I believe we can sing in a lot of keys. I know I have this big range, but the point is to find a key that emotionally connects people.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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I find Shakespeare terrifying. When Simon Russell Beale does a speech, I understand every word of it, but if I did the same speech, people would be going, 'Huh? What?'
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As a prosecutor, I got a paycheck for coming to work every day. I didn't get a promotion when I won, and I didn't get a demotion when I did a bad job.
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You need to get down among the people who are the dirtiest and dustiest, and the depravity, and you need to see Christ's light shining there.
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Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.
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I always make a decision, even if it's the wrong one. I hate being confused.
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Awards are great, as you get to meet up with friends and colleagues from your industry - a sort of reunion.
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When you read reviews on Yelp, you get a good sense of what's going to happen when you walk in the door of that business. The challenge is that there are fifteen million businesses in the U.S., and its very hard to communicate with all of them about how Yelp works, and why it works the way it does.
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I just think swing is a matter of some good things put together that you can really pat your foot by. I can't define it beyond that.
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All good art is abstract in its structure.
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I do want to sell as many records and win as many awards as I can. The awards though, they don't necessarily determine if you're good or not. I know that now.
