Michael Jackson Quotes
There was Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, an aloof superstar who had everything and needed no one. And Michael Jackson, the shy kid under the mask, who lacked even a single real friend.
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I don't have kids, but I know that you want them to follow their dreams, while at the same time, you don't want them to be sitting around, hoping that dream is just going to come. I'm sure that's hard to tell your kids.
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I don't miss politics.
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Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. I can work out a good character much faster than anyone can lie me out of it
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I've learned to be one of the hardheadedest cats in the world. I've learned that.
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Most young people make films to be accepted, to be discovered, when in fact that was the last idea with the group I went to film school with. To be discovered was not our intention. Our intention was to tell our story our way, and make our own mistakes and learn from film to film.
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Descartes, the Frenchman, had little trouble knowing that he existed.
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Official intelligence on Iraqi weapons programs was flawed, but even with its flaws, it was not what led to the war.
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Art is meant to strike us with Reality, not allow us to hide from it.
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You can be true to the character all you want but you've got to go home with yourself.
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Music makes my blood flow. I don't know anyone who doesn't have a favorite song. I just want to be the messenger.
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There's a lot of pressure to look good, have the gun, know what you're doing and be one of the boys. I was like, "I don't want to be one of the boys. I want to be a doctor. I want to be cerebral. I want to sit back and just use something else. I don't want to do the stunts. Let the boys do that. I'm just going to be the doctor who's about taking care of other people."
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Do you know how many rules there are in football? … There are 17 rules. That's it. Everyone talks about football and nobody remembers this simple fact.
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We must look towards societies that set a high value on nonaggression and noncompetitive ness, and therefore handle conflicts by nonviolent means. We can see how child rearing patterns produce nurturing adult behaviors.
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The sun burnt every day. It burnt Time. The world rushed in a circle and turned on its axis and time was busy burning the years and the people anyway, without any help from him. So if he burnt things with the firemen, and the sun burnt Time, that meant everything burnt!
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Slavery has as many shapes among us as there are things we need.
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When I was a kid, people called me Emily rather than Esperanza, even though my full name is Esperanza Emily Spalding.
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We've never had problems. We love each other, understand each other, and get past anything.
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It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.
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In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
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Being a superstar means you've reached your potential, and I don't think I've reached my potential as a basketball player and as a leader yet.
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When I came to Mumbai, I didn't know a soul. The only person I knew was an assistant director, which, everyone agrees, is the lowest form of life on the set. So, it was not a great contact to have. So, I knew from day one that I wasn't going to be launched opposite a superstar.
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There was Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, an aloof superstar who had everything and needed no one. And Michael Jackson, the shy kid under the mask, who lacked even a single real friend.
