Michael Jackson Quotes

People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.

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• Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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• Since I started playing at the Olympics in 2000, I have always wanted to do a dress based on Wonder Woman. It should be interesting to wear. And hopefully, it will get me a gold medal.

  

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• I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.

  

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• There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.

  

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• I'm addicted to food, so if you bring the cake and stuff to my house, I might walk by and take a swipe of icing and keep it moving. So what happens is I try to not keep it around.

  

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• My brother is really, really slow.

  

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• You'd better believe that Putin sees that in Syria, Obama draws a red line and ignores the red line.

  

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• Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.

  

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• I don't think about records.

  

  Usain Bolt
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• As an Ambassador for PSI and a supporter of Nothing But Nets, I have met individuals around the world who are lending their ideas, their voices, and their time to improve their communities and the world at large. And there are millions more that I have not met.

  

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• The thing that I really love about film is that it is with you forever - it goes to your children, and they get to see it again and again and have it forever.

  

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• Basically, my mother couldn't hold a tune and when I was a baby, a rather tactless baby, I would ask her not to sing... you can't get to sleep if someone is singing off key nearby.

  

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• In Latin America, people want you to write beautiful melodies and words. But there are also songs that do well because they show the reality of life.

  

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• I am a Marxist Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.

  

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• Estoy solo entre materias desvencijadas,la lluvia cae sobre mí, y se me parece,se me parece con su desvarío,solitaria en el mundo muerto,rechazada al caer, y sin forma obstinada.

  

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• We've all seen 'Jewing it up' performances. They are about as miserable to watch as as 'camping it up' performances when representing gays.

  

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• If someone throws you in a pool and you can't swim, you're going to struggle.

  

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• The first time I came here to the U.S. to start a career, it was in 2002 or 2003. Since then, it's been so, so hard.

  

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• The barometer for judging the character of people, in regard human rights, is now those who consider themselves gay, homosexual, lesbian. The judgment as to whether you can trust the future, the social advancement - depending on people - will be judged on where they come out on that question.

  

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• I had this weird fetish for making the guitar sound like it wasn't a guitar to try and trick people into actually thinking it was a keyboard. I don't know why that was such an obsession, why I didn't just get a keyboard. I guess it was because I had no money.

  

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• Those who speak up, those who use their connections, are more likely to succeed than those who sit and wait.

  

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• People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.

  

  Michael Jackson
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  • Music
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