Michael Jackson Quotes
Music is colorless. It's for everybody, it's for the world, it's for everybody to enjoy.
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
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We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.
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I think it's important for girls to be confident. Believe in yourself and... everybody's hot.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.
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Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful.
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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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Dad always explained the car engine when he repaired it, and he had many technical books, so I was making electromagnets by age eight as well as reading my mother's medical and nursing books. I suspect I was born with a boundless curiosity, and this was encouraged through my childhood.
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Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.
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I had heard about how people struggle and how hard it is to get into acting. But I did not care because it's something I love.
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It's nice to be in a situation where the two books that I write for a sort of regular monthly income are also works that I enjoy immensely, rather than them being some kind of bread and butter, do it because you have to do it.
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Social Security is fundamentally strong.
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I was a victim of a stereotype. There were only two of us Negro kids in the whole class, and our English teacher was always stressing the importance of rhythm in poetry. Well, everybody knows - except us - that all Negroes have rhythms, so they elected me class poet.
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We said from the very beginning that we're in this for the long haul.
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Part of being out there, campaigning, talking to people, is being able to read body language.
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Even an independent label is looking for a hit, they're not looking for a record that's not gonna do well.
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When you're someone who cares about making a difference in the world, and you have resources to do that, you have literally hundreds of choices you could make about how to do that.
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Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.
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Country fans need to support country music by buying albums and concert tickets for traditional artists or the music will just fade away. And that would be really sad.
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I'm quite un-traditional.
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I think, back in the day, when I was first starting to make music, all I wanted to do was to get a record deal.
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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
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Well, there are two kinds of happiness, grounded and ungrounded. Ungrounded happiness is cheesy and not based on reality. Grounded happiness is informed happiness based on the knowledge that the world sometimes sucks, but even then you have to believe in yourself.
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Music is colorless. It's for everybody, it's for the world, it's for everybody to enjoy.
