Michael Jackson Quotes
I look at things and try to imagine what is possible and then hope to surpass those boundaries.
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I don't see divorce as a failure. I see it as the end to a story. In a story, everything has an end and a beginning.
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We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood.
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Of all the labels and tags and epithets people have forced upon me, there's one I don't dislike. I get called the 'enfant terrible.' In every article, it's always there. So I have to give that a meaning.
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Our new pro-growth tax policy will be like a shot of adrenaline into the heart of the Kansas economy.
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When you're watching television, you don't want to watch a show where everything just works out. You don't want to see a relationship that's just blossoming and everyone's happy and sunshine and roses all the time. That's also not true in life.
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I'm not into nostalgia, and I only look back to find lessons.
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When I was really little, I listened to Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Barbara Mandrel, Crystal Gayle, Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson, and Patsy Cline.
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I'm really terrible with small children; they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy.
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The series of photographic operations, developing, washing, final drying, takes about quarter of an hour.
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India needs to sustain its high growth rate.
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Even the 'Negro' shows like 'Amos and Andy' and 'Beulah' are written largely by white writers - the better to preserve the stereotypes, I imagine.
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I really have learned to live in the moment. I don't question things too much or try to project into the future. That's how life should be.
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If inequalities of taxable wealth backing up a government service are construed as denying equality before the law, then there is no solution but to have every government service whatever financed out of Washington.
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When you work on something that combines both the spectacular and the relatable, the hyperreal and the real, it suddenly can become supernatural. The hypothetical and the theoretical can become literal.
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An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.
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People willy-nilly borrow for consumption. Civil servants willy-nilly borrow for consumption and then wonder why they don't have enough money at the end of the month.
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As a practising lawyer, I was mediocre, but I worked hard as a law officer of the state government and on the private side. After becoming a judge, I maintained a low profile in other activities and concentrated only on judicial work.
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Raising a child is an on-the-job kind of thing. There aren't a whole lot of manuals for that.
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The pirating thing is bad. The people it hurts the most are the ones you least think it hurts. It's not the big Britney Spears albums that are being pirated; it's the indie bands that don't have two cents to their name
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Let's be clear about what Common Core is. It spells out what students should know at the end of each grade. The goal is to ensure that our students are sound in math and literacy and that our schools have some basic consistency nationwide. But the standards do not dictate a national curriculum, and teachers are not told how or what to teach.
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Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
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It's the irrational things that interest me.
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I look at things and try to imagine what is possible and then hope to surpass those boundaries.
