Michael Jackson Quotes
All the forms of popular music from jazz to hip-hop, to bebop, to soul come from black innovation. You talk about different dances from the catwalk, to the jitterbug, to the Charleston, to break dancing -\-\ all these are forms of black dancing...What would [life] be without a song, without a dance, and joy and laughter, and music.
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Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
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Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
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I don't like to practice; I like spontaneity. When I don't play guitar for a week and I pick it up again, I play better.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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I wrote my first book when I was 15 years old. And my second book '1,2,3 Publish Me!' shows everyone how writing a book is done in just the three secret editing levels I discovered!
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I fantasized being a broadcaster.
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My professional dreams were coming true while I was living a personal nightmare.
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Hold the door for a lady. Wait until a lady is out of the elevator.
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I do not have any pets. We travel too much.
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Don't worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.
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Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man.
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Authoritarianism, an unrealistic occidental imagination - these issues will never be settled. Turkey will continue to take Europe as a model; it will continue to pursue its search for democracy.
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My family is heavily involved in the Marines and close-combat training, and I was raised doing Japanese sword training, so I've always been of the mentality that you have to be able to defend yourself.
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The beautiful uncut hair of graves.
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I don't get jealousy, I don't get how people hate each other - I never did.
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I'm proud of my decade-long fight to have all ophthalmologists re-certify, regardless of age.
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'From Here to Eternity' happens to be fourteen-carat entertainment. The main trouble is that it is too entertaining for a film in which love affairs flounder, one sweet guy is beaten to death, and a man of high principles is mistaken for a saboteur and killed on a golf course.
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The government must adopt a rights-based approach that speaks to the needs and aspirations of surrogate mothers, children born out of surrogacy, and all individuals who want access to altruistic surrogacy services.
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I overcame size with mechanics.
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Perhaps all of us have come to rely too deeply on machinery and software to be our allies without wondering about the cost: the way technology doesn't fix problems without creating new ones.
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All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.
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When you play to an audience, you come away energized. It's the promo that really breaks an artist. Some lad sitting on a box trying to create a drum sound in a dry little studio. Everyone goes, 'Great - okay, now on with my day.' You go back to the bus, and you weep.
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When you're playing a real character, you want to honor that person and receive inspiration from that person. They need to anoint you in some way that allows you to borrow just a small piece of their soul. That is the flame.
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All the forms of popular music from jazz to hip-hop, to bebop, to soul come from black innovation. You talk about different dances from the catwalk, to the jitterbug, to the Charleston, to break dancing -\-\ all these are forms of black dancing...What would [life] be without a song, without a dance, and joy and laughter, and music.
