Michael Jackson Quotes
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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
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I personally enjoy theatre, but preferably I do films so that I can reach up to maximum audience. If you want to give a serious message, it will reach out to maximum people through films. But through theatre, you can hardly reach out to about 3,000 audience at a time.
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Chess was natural for me; I was extremely successful.
Garry Kasparov -
I've got good speed off the edge.
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There are some who complain that there is not enough food grain. But I put the argument that at the moment we use 2000 census population figures and require 50-55 million tonnes for distribution.
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Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of society - people who want to use government to avoid having to earn their living and to avoid having to persuade others to accept their ideas voluntarily.
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There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics.
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I find Shakespeare terrifying. When Simon Russell Beale does a speech, I understand every word of it, but if I did the same speech, people would be going, 'Huh? What?'
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We need to do more to conserve fuel or face tougher choices such as steep price increase or even quantitative restrictions.
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This is the other thing: we make the cost of raising kids higher than it has to be just because we feel they need all this stuff, like gadgets, certain schools, and activities that are nice but aren't really necessary.
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I tried to get into the National Youth Theatre and didn't, and I tried to get into drama school and didn't, and then I went to university and was really delighted that I went there. I think having the word 'no' can be quite creative.
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The good news is world population growth rate decreases systematically and is expected to reach zero by 2050, thanks to urbanisation and women's education.
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There are so many people who are arguing or fighting over issues which don't have much relevance. We must all realise it is not worth it.
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Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
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I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!
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If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.
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'To Die For,' with Nicole Kidman, is great - her desire to be a part of news, how she uses news to further her career and how it can drive you insane. I love that movie.
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Economists often get the market wrong.
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You’re supposed to expand your mind to fit the art, you’re not supposed to chop the art down to fit your mind.
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That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.
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If we continue to fight the National Rifle Association on their home court, which is the legislative front, I think we'll continue to be frustrated. But when you have an ability to go directly to the public, that's a completely different field of engagement, and I think the NRA is not adept at that kind of engagement.
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I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.
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What meditation does is allow you to actually survive these emotions as opposed to compartmentalizing and having them come up and make you a shithead in other areas of your life. The alternative is to be miserable, and I don't think we're living in a wise way when we do that.
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Deep down inside we're all the same. We all have the same emotions.
