Michael Jackson Quotes
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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We believe in some basic human principles - everyone should have the opportunities not just to survive, but to excel with their God-given talents and abilities. Those are the values that should be reflected in our budgets.
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For some reason, I just lack that ability to be embarrassed about going up to people. I even do it for friends if they want to ask someone out.
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
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I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.
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I have a cat named Dandelion.
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I worked with Michael Black and Michael Showalter on their show 'Michael and Michael Have Issues.' We did some stuff on that, but it ended up not getting picked up for a second season. There will be more stuff, but not right now. Michael Showalter and I are literally next-door neighbors. We see quite a lot of each other.
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It's a very fascinating thing for an actor to play somebody who is suffering, and you have to express the suffering, but in an inarticulate way and sometimes a dysfunctional way, through violence.
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I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.
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The problem with working under an outside label is that your music never seems to reach the right people.
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The most important thing you will do is yet to be seen. For me, I found my important thing to do when I learned to do surgery on the eye, when I learned to restore a person's vision.
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When I was in high school, we used to do 15-20 hours of dance per week, and then when you graduate, you don't have that much time on your hands anymore.
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Liberals want to live downtown. All over America - in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Georgetown - there are crowds of liberals living in the gritty, ugly, dirty neighborhoods sensible people are trying to flee.
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I am a classic 'Star Trek' fanatic.
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If man was the relative of animals, then animals were the relatives of man, and in degrees bearers of that inwardness of which man, the most advanced of their kin, is conscious in himself.
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There was nothing more I wanted to do than to see my dad react well to my music. I still do. I send him my demos all the time.
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I think the only time that I worry about looking good is on the red carpet.
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Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.
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Senate Republicans have engaged in a record number of filibusters and other obstructionist tactics.
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Government tends to stifle innovation, and it abhors improvisation. Any good military strategist will tell you that a battle plan rarely survives past the first engagement. After that, you have to improvise to survive and to win.
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For me, 'Far Beyond Driven' just had an oomph that kicked it over the edge and just pure aggression. And I always appreciated that.
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I just want the state fixed, and I just want to do the right thing for the taxpayers.
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Look deep within yourself, and you'll find something amazing.