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.
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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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It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.
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As a child I wanted to be a professional athlete or lawyer.
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You're literally being an actor - you're pretending - and that's not what I like to do.
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I love sports. I love animals. I love kids. I want to save the world. So how do I combine all those things? I don't know.
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Where we're coming down is we currently have $787 billion of stimulus that's been passed. We're certainly focusing on spending that money as quickly and as efficiently and as transparently as we can. We think that's absolutely the right strategy.
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Sometimes," I ventured, "it doesn't occur to boys that their mother was ever young and pretty. . . I couldn't stand it if you boys were inconsiderate, or thought of her as if she were just somebody who looked after you. You see I was very much in love with your mother once, and I know there's nobody like her.
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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.
