Michael Jackson Quotes
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Congress seems to be very good at doing nothing.
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People more than ever since I can remember are concerned about being out of step and out of line with their political party and won't cross over. There is nobody, man or woman, who wants to be left out, and people are fearful of that. People are fearful of their leadership as well.
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Acting is in your soul.
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I like to come up with lots of different sounds. So the final version of a song might have been 10 completely different songs before we finally got it right.
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I love the road, and I love coming in contact with the fans. They talk to me and that's irreplaceable. But when I get tired, I head to the studio and I am in there for a long time.
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Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.
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Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Our society wants things to grow, and our society wants things to become bigger and bigger. Everything has to be put under the spotlight.
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People say America is exceptional. I agree, but it's not the complexion of our skin or the twists in our DNA that make us unique. America is exceptional because we were founded upon the notion that everyone should be free to pursue life, liberty, and happiness.
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Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.
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I don't believe in the no-carb diet... I have a theory. I think if you give up carbs, you get cranky. You must include them in your daily diet.
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It's hard for me to believe someone could harm a child.
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My wife and I love to read. We're going to have to move out to make room for the books! And we have our dogs.
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Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very diverse relations obtain but belonging to a single category: these are associative relations.
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What I've realized is that we're our own harshest critics. We give ourselves limitations. But I want to push through that wall, on a creative and personal level.
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I hold theatre acting in such high esteem that it scares me.
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Amartya Sen is best known to the general reader for his powerful essays on famine. He is an optimist about some of our gravest economic problems, such as mass starvation in a world that at present can easily produce more food than everyone can eat. Reason and voluntary participation are his watchwords.
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I'm terrified of heights, but I think there's something really beautiful about birds and soaring, having a bird's-eye view of the world.
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I worked at magazines for over 10 years before I even thought of writing a book.
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I’ve got to go and check my stock.
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To go from Girl, Interrupted, where I had to cry every day, to a TV show like West Wing where I get to laugh and joke around every day, has been a welcome relief.
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Honor your parents by not judging them. Give them the benefit of doubt.
