Michael Jackson Quotes
Look at how many great actors or entertainers have been lost to the world because they did a performance one night and that was it. With film, you capture that, it's shown all over the world and it's there forever.
Quotes to Explore
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What I know about this world is that white people will take care of themselves. And what I have learned is that if you are where they are on an equal basis, they cannot take care of themselves without taking care of you.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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If something is mine, then I want to keep it.
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When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police.
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I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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There are times, especially when I was just getting into PC gaming, where I spent way less time playing than obsessing about the quality of the play.
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All politicians should have 3 hats - one to throw into the ring, one to talk through, and one to pull rabbits out of if elected.
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We are in favor of greater free markets.
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Unlike President Obama, I am not afraid to state, without a wink or a nod, that the government has no right to tell us who we can marry or not marry.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
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I'd say it's even harder to cater to Hispanics than to the lesbian or gay community. We're so culturally separated: Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Mexicans, Venezuelans. We're all so different.
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I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.
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We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us.
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Usually I start with a beat, I start making a beat, and my producer side is making the beat. And on a good day, my rapper side will jump in and start the writing process - maybe come up with a hook or start a verse. Sometimes it just happens like that. A song like 'Lights Please' happens like that.
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I don't know why the guys with the big money don't find five terrific young producers and give each of them enough to commission a musical and to live on for a year. You'd be likely to get at least one project with a future.
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That's all you can do as an actor - take the best thing available.
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If the doors are going to close on me, it's a little late.
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From being a little girl in the projects, going through all of the mess that I was going through, to ending up at the Inauguration for the first African-American president, I'm speechless right now because I never thought I'd - I never ever - I couldn't even see that far. Even when I ended up in the music business, I couldn't see that.
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Look at how many great actors or entertainers have been lost to the world because they did a performance one night and that was it. With film, you capture that, it's shown all over the world and it's there forever.
