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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I love being a redhead. It's a rare thing, so I think there's a bond between redheads.
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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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We were so busy that we didn't have time to think about how terrible it was or - in fact it felt strangely natural.
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Someone told me, 'When you go see Pearl Jam, it's going to be a spiritual experience,' and it was. It was my first time seeing them live, and I've been a lifelong fan. Eddie Vedder's voice is a million times better live, and I couldn't believe the passion he put into every single song.
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I consider myself true, which, I know, some people look at as radical, but I enjoy the normalcies of life. I'm not out there trying to transform things, but somehow, by being easy to talk to, and easy to look at, and on a mainstream TV show, I think that I'm helping the public's opinions about transgendered people to change, slowly.
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I gave my life to Christ about 1991.
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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.
