Michael Jackson Quotes
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I wouldn't say no to becoming a Bond girl. Making it in Hollywood has been my dream ever since I was little, watching Marilyn Monroe movies. To star in a Bond movie would be bliss on a stick.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
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One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.
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I want less and less control with music. Just playing music without any idea of composition or writing.
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In Mexico we have a trick - add a crystal of salt to the kettle and the tea tastes better, almost English. But after four pots, your kettle's broken.
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One of the fun things about unreliable narrators is they can be funny. You can admire things about them and laugh with them.
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The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history.
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Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.
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A dark object seen against a bright background will appear smaller than it is. A light object will look larger when it is seen against a background darker than itself.
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The lake was always my orienting point when my dad was teaching me how to not get lost. The lake is east, so you'll always know that. It's a weird thing where you can kind of feel where you're at in Chicago, and when I was downtown, I was like, 'Oh, it feels more open over here. That must be east.' It felt like a little secret thing.
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I avoid writing about sex out of a certainty that no matter how grown up and matter-of-fact I might try to be, there is a snickering yet nun-terrorized 12-year-old-boy inside me who would at some point be certain to grab the reins in his hairy palms.
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I think I've developed a sort of ADD for geography now. When I've been in a country for too long, I'm like, 'I think it's time to leave.' I don't know what that's going to do to me in later life.
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Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
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I think people just think I am crazy because they see me doing stand-up, but I am generally not. I am very sad. I'm one of those guys that lights candles and listens to Rachmaninoff.
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From natural disasters to the refugee crises, the impact we can have as individuals might seem limited. But as many of our hosts know, sharing your home for even a few nights can make a tremendous difference in someone's life.
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I am a big proponent of character arcs that show us how people change over time.
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I tend to be overly responsible for other people's feelings.
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All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But when the men have died in battle and honour, you have leave to be burned in the house, for the men will need it no more. But I am of the House of Erol and not a serving-woman. I can ride and wield blade, and I do not fear either pain or death.
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Do something great that you really believe is great.
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I constantly push my body to meet what my mind wants me to be able to do.
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Impossibilities are merely things of which we have not learned, or which we do not wish to happen.
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There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric; but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones.
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Truth always prevails. And I believe in that. I believe in God.
