Michael Jackson Quotes
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All lives have triumphs and tragedies, laughter and tears, and mine has been no different. What really matters is whether, after all of that, you remain strong and a comfort to your loved ones. I have tried to meet that test.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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It's no secret that I've been reluctant to use my name for things.
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New York City is my favorite city in the world.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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I think we are living in paradise with regards to the ways we can amuse ourselves, communicate. We have such a richness of possibilities.
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We need to change America's image round the world. America has lost some lustre in terms of how folks aspire to be like us.
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My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.
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In Don Mills in the Sixties, nothing comes close to the humiliation of losing an argument. In our weird little creative circle, no one cares who has faster fists, but to lose an argument suggests inferior intelligence.
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It is not length of life, but depth of life.
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Generally speaking, I don't think people know a great deal about the Viking culture, apart from the label that is usually attached to them, either pillagers or deviants who came and brought back loot to Norway. It was an incredibly sophisticated, complex and layered culture. They had their own laws, many of which protected women.
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If you're the Olympic champion then they have to wait four more years to get you again.
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There are a thousand ways to play any role.
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The problem was just a mean attitude that festers and has to be challenged.
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Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.
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All the Junos, the Grammy nominations, the gold and platinum records, did nothing to assuage my conviction that I was an out-and-out loser.
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I grew up partially around Stone Mountain, Georgia, and in that part of the country, there was always this aura of mythology and palpable sense of otherness about being a Southerner.
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While it may seem small, the ripple effects of small things is extraordinary.
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She can kill with her smile, she can wound with her eyes.
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We realized that our purpose was not merely to build a studio that made hit films but to foster a creative culture that would continually ask questions.
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The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.
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I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have from reading novels. The understatements in the tenor saxophone of Lester Young, the crystal, haunting, forever searching sounds of John Coltrane, and the softness and violence of Count Basie's big band - all have fired my imagination as much as anything in literature.
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An artist’s imagination is his greatest tool...
