Michael Jackson Quotes
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Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.
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Because I'm a big guy, I was always playing the bad guy or whatever, but after I did 'The Blind Side,' where I played a father who's a really loving, likeable sort of person, a lot of those barriers were broken down. People saw me as something softer, not so much as a heavy anymore.
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You have to understand, I can't do any jokes about Ross Perot, because the last thing I need right now is another credit check.
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Female can understand more detail and really care for the consequence and understand all the process.
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You have to really love women in order to really just have a respect for women and love them. No man - I don't care what kind of man it is, how feminine he is - they never could understand what we go through as far as physically and mentally.
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My father always said I have a face for radio, and 'Cloverfield' was one of my finest pieces of work.
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I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.
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My mother was an activist; so was my father. They came from a generation of young Somalis who were actively involved in getting independence for Somalia in 1960.
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As a child, my father's architecture seemed to me to be industrial in a way. It seemed harsh and kind of chilly; I didn't respond to it.
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To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.
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Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.
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Of course I was in love with my father as a child. He was Daddy, and our house came alive in a special way whenever he walked through the door. He'd romp and play with us; my sisters and I would literally squeal with excitement when Daddy came home.
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I'm a war baby: I was brought up with rationing, and my parents always had to struggle. I remember when I was sent to boarding school - Prior Park College in Bath - my father was asked how he was going to pay the fees, and he replied: 'In arrears.'
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Understand that we are all co-creators of our respective destinies.
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I hadn't actually watched 'Entourage.' But I do understand that if you know and love that show, Jeremy Piven is about as good as it gets.
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As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.
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I could not bear to think that I wrote a five-hundred page novel just because I needed to love my father.
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Becoming a father has changed everything. He Thiago comes first then everything else. It has also changed the way I see a match. Before if I lost or did something wrong I didn't talk to anyone for three or four days, until it passed. Now, I come home after a game, I see my son and everything is alright.
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If we keep demanding that God yield up His answers, perhaps some day we will understand them. And then we will be something more than clever apes, and we shall dance with God.
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To fight evil one must also recognize one's own responsibility. The values for which we stand must be expressed in the way we think of, and how we deal with, our fellow humans.
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Pride is not the worst of sins. In fact, it's one of the most interesting ones.
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Part of my strength as an actor comes from what I've learned all these years: when you play a villain, you try to get the light touches; when you play a hero, you try to get in some of the warts.
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The problem is not making up the steps but deciding which ones to keep.
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I just wish I could understand my father.
