Michael Jackson Quotes
My goal in life is to give to the world what I was lucky to receive: the ecstasy of divine union through my music and my dance.
Quotes to Explore
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Money opens up wonderful worlds of possibilities.
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
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I think that black people, to a degree, need to have a certain level of dexterity. If we want to be at the highest level of whatever our field is, we have to be able to navigate both worlds. We all just know that you gotta be able to put that suit on and have a conversation with people that don't look like you or your family.
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The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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I believe in reincarnation of the soul.
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The blessing of being able to write music and let music speak for itself is you let the melodies and let the lyrics and the groove talk to people instead of me talking to people.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.
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I would categorize Die Antwoord as pop music: extreme, futuristic pop music.
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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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We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
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You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.
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I don't like anything permanent; I have to be able to flee. You have to be able to flee at a moment's notice.
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We say arts education is good for general education, but that's not the point. The arts are what great nations are remembered for. They are a mirror.
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But if we ask where precisely in the brain that point of view is located, the simple assumptions that work so well on larger scales of space and time break down. It is now quite clear that there is no single point in the brain where all information funnels in, and this fact has some far from obvious consequences.
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There have been men before … who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God himself… as if the good Lord had nothing to do but to exist. There have been some who were so preoccupied with spreading Christianity that they never gave a thought to Christ.
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Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.
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In that daily effort in which intelligence and passion mingle and delight each other, the absurd man discovers a discipline that will make up the greatest of his strengths. The required diligence and doggedness and lucidity thus resemble the conqueror's attitude. To create is likewise to give a shape to one's fate. For all these characters, their work defines them at least as much as it is defined by them. The actor taught us this: There is no frontier between being and appearing.
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No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence.
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What I've really liked doing is combining what you might call art criticism or music criticism with something that is happening in real life.
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If we are going to live as disciples of Jesus, we have to remember that all noble things are difficult. The Christian life is gloriously difficult, but the difficulty of it does not make us faint and cave in, it rouses us up to overcome.
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My goal in life is to give to the world what I was lucky to receive: the ecstasy of divine union through my music and my dance.
