Michael Jackson Quotes

Music is the soundtrack to life. It plays the melody of our being.

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• When U.S.-based editors and columnists parachute into a news storm, it is often the stringers who keep us out of trouble, helping us glimpse the complexity behind the headlines.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Storm
  • News
  • Complexity

• What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Up
  • Now
  • Bigger

• They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Music
  • Fun
  • Song

• The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Lie
  • Measure
  • Tape

• Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Lose
  • Praise
  • Half

• Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Enough
  • Stupid
  • Nobody

• In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Death
  • Try
  • Escape

• I had to start being aware of what I ate, what I'm planning to eat and take my twice-daily medication accordingly. That's not so difficult now, but when you're 10 years old, it's tough, let me tell you.

  

  Dana Hill
  • Daily
  • Start
  • Planning

• More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• The return of democracy in our land has indeed thrown the problems of development into bolder relief.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • Democracy
  • Problems
  • Land

• There's something unnatural about losing a sibling when they're young.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Young
  • Losing
  • Sibling

• Over the years to come, one thing is for certain: if the monarchy wishes to stay relevant and in power, it will have to change more.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Power
  • Change
  • Wishes

• In Paris, everybody is in black! But you know, in Ukraine everyone wears bright colours.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Black
  • Know
  • Paris

• It is tact that is golden, not silence.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Silence
  • Golden
  • Tact

• I put down the camera long ago, you know? I was here in London, aged 19, and I was obsessed with my camera, shooting everything I could. Then someone stole it. It helped me to see things for the first time.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Time
  • Camera
  • Obsessed

• I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Always
  • Never
  • Down

• Doing a lot of drama earlier in my career and now exploring comedy has been a treat for me, and I've had an absolute blast, and I hope to continue.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Hope
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• I believe that women should be treated just like men.

  

  RaeLynn
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Women

• If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person is subhuman. The second thing you have to do is convince your allies so you'll have some help, and the third and probably unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he or she is subhuman and deserves it.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Person
  • Deserve
  • Convince

• Blackness is a state of mind, and I identify with the black community. Mainly, because I realized, early on, when I walk into a room, people see a black woman, they don't see a white woman. So out of that reason alone, I identify more with the black community.

  

  Halle Berry
  • People
  • Mind
  • Black

• Most devices have been hacked in some way and are part of - part of a botnet network that can come after you in DDoS attacks.

  

  Dan Schulman

• Popular culture isn't a freeze-frame; it is images zapping by in rapid-fire succession, which is why collage is such an effective way of representing contemporary life. The blur between images creates a kind of motion in the mind.

  

  James Rosenquist
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Why

• It's important in life to celebrate any victory in life.

  

  Jillian Michaels
  • Life
  • Important
  • Victory

• Music is the soundtrack to life. It plays the melody of our being.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Life
  • Music
  • Soundtrack