Michael Jackson Quotes
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If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.
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The mind is the effect, not the cause.
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Controversial means somebody who makes people think. And if you are afraid of people who will be against you, you might as well stay home and do nothing.
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At some point, you've got to realize, you're either a leading man or you're not.
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The aim of being a good designer is to have an influence. If you design furniture or lifestyle, you should influence the way people evolve globally. It's good to have an influence.
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I will come out with my interpretation. If I'm wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take.
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Probably my mother. She was a very compassionate woman, and always kept me on my feet. And I think part of it is just the way you are, the way you're raised. And she had the responsibility for raising me.
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I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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Grace is everywhere as an active orientation of all created reality toward God.
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He always has an alibi, and one or two to spare:At whatever time the deed took place-Macavity wasn't there.
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Perhaps it is the positive knowledge that humans now possess the means to destroy their whole planet, the fear that they have in this way themselves become the gods, dreadfully charged with their own continued existence, that has made comic-book and movie myth escapist.
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... none seemed to think the injury arose from the use of a bad thing, but from the abuse of a very good thing.
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I'd actually been making my living as an organist with bands since I was probably 15 or 16 years old, and then as a senior in high school I put together a jazz quintet called The Bobby Mack Jazz Quintet.
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People have a right to have their lives witnessed; if we coexist with the systems that abuse people, then we have a duty to understand.
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The Internet was invented in America but has found its largest number of users in China.
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I'm basically turning my apartment into an armory.
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I often feel that I have a split personality. I love more than anything to be in my study writing, but when it's time to do a book tour, I love that extroverted part, too - talking to people, reading, traveling, going out into the world.
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Both from the standpoint of stocks and bonds, an investor wants to go where the growth is.
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When I read the Upanishads, which are part of Vedanta, I found a profundity of worldview that made my Christianity seem like third grade.
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I kind of embarked on a fruitless search to find information about my character, Frederick Aiken. And it was fruitless, unfortunately, because there's so little about him.
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Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.
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Golf is a game with morals. There's always an opportunity to be a scoundrel. That's why it's a gentleman's game.
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I approach song writing three different ways. One way is where I write the initial melody and lyrics first and then take it in to the producer to collaborate. Another way is where the producer sends me his initial musical track ideas and then I write the lyrics and melody over his track. The third way is where we just jam out in the studio and see what we come up with.
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I'm a gentleman, call me old fashioned if you want.
