Michael Jackson Quotes
I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity.
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Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.
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I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.
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People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me is that if it's nasty, I then have to go and have a look, even though actually I don't want to know.
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What role should religion play in the American public school classroom? My own knee-jerk response would be, 'none whatsoever,' but the Constitution isn't quite so direct on the subject.
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Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?
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I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
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I'm going to prove to the fans, going to prove to my teammates, that I can be a better defensive player, offensive player, to win games.
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Maybe we adults idealize our own red-rover days, the hot afternoons spent playing games that required no coaches, eating foods that involved no nutrition, getting dirty in whole new ways and rarely glancing in the direction of a screen of any kind.
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I am not, and have no interest in being, a musician of any kind.
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When I got to New York City when I was 18, I started playing in clubs in Brooklyn - I have good friends and devoted fans on the underground scene, but we were playing for each other at that point - and that was it.
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Lots of TV shows say that they are like doing a movie every week, but 'JAG' truly was a huge show. Lots of once-in-a-lifetime opportunities, like being launched off an aircraft carrier and being welcomed by military bases all over California.
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For myself, the way that I learned comedy was doing it live for four years, and only after doing sketch for four years did I feel confident enough to be like, 'Okay, I feel good about starting to put stuff on the Internet where it lives forever.' As opposed to one time at a college sketch show where it bombs and we never speak of it again.
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I have this view that losing weight is easy, keeping it off is hard because keeping it off is the discipline.
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The only thing I can cook is Welsh rarebit.
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I used to feel guilty about owning a console.
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The universe, when you leave it alone, is going to be beautiful.
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One of my favorite things to make is homemade sushi. I know how to make the rolls and it's really fun to do.
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It's really cool when a guy tips 20 per cent quickly and effortlessly so that when the check comes, he opens it and signs his name and done.
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I take pride in having something to say, which people actually want to hear.
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My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure.
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Romance was a game, like bridge, in which you said things instead of playing cards. Like bridge you had to pretend you were playing for money or playing for some stakes.
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When you get older, you try to get what you wanted as a kid. Maybe you wanted an arcade in your house or Q-Tip rapping on your beats.
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Theres two kinds of music: black soul music, and the white imitation thereof.
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I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity.
