Michael Jackson Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
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Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
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More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.
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There's something unnatural about losing a sibling when they're young.
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In Paris, everybody is in black! But you know, in Ukraine everyone wears bright colours.
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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.
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I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top.
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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.
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I believe that women should be treated just like men.
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I talk to myself quite a lot, and when things get stressful, I just tell myself to breathe.
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I need to lose some weight. I'm getting really fat. But I'm getting older, and I just can't stop eating wonderful food. Rich, wonderful food.
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You have no idea how it feels to know that you've cut someone to the quick. I'll never do it again, never, never.
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βούλευμα μὲν τὸ Δῖον, Ἡφαίστου δὲ χείρ.
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Now who are the individuals who are the greatest benefactors of the living generation of mankind? I should say: Confucius and Lao-Tse; the Buddha; the Prophets of Israel and Judah; Zoroaster, Jesus, Muhammad; and Socrates.
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Getting up at four in the morning to tend the farm while the world is quiet - feeding animals, mucking stalls, gathering eggs, filling water troughs, checking fences, letting animals out into the field - is a high point to my day.
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I had never done a 90-minute play with no intermission, so it is a bit like you get onto the train and you don't get off until it's over - and it's over very quickly, so don't miss a moment of it. That experience is very rare and specific so don't miss a minute, because there aren't very many minutes of it.
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If we had a truth-in Government act comparable to the truth-in-advertising law, every note issued by the Treasury would be obliged to include a sentence stating: This note will be redeemed with the proceeds from an identical note which will be sold to the public when this one comes due.
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It's very encouraging to see the structural changes that the RNC has made this past year in engaging communities on the ground. Recognizing that the way to reach voters is to go into their communities instead of reaching out from an office in Washington DC is essential for victory in elections today.
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Music is the soundtrack to life. It plays the melody of our being.
