Michael Jackson Quotes
I don't understand why the press is so interested in speculating about my appearance, anyway. What does my face have to do with my music or my dancing?
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I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.
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There is nothing out there that I have a grudge against or I have a problem with.
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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
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I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it's male-dominated.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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Dancing is a very healthy thing to do for our body.
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive.
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I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.
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I want to work with intelligent people and look for scripts that I think are intelligent and surprising.
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Take your mind off the problems for a moment, and focus on the positive possibilities. Consider how very much you are able to do.
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Through the 'It's About Ability' campaign and with parents and other members of society, we have created a social family for children with disabilities.
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I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.
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There are things about our world that almost by their nature defy our ability to comprehend them. Some people use a religious register to deal with that - they call it God and that's a way of domesticating it.
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I want anything I produce to be good for people kind enough to try it, but it's the momentum and process I enjoy most.
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Now, the typical way you make good things happen in Washington is you find a bunch of wealthy companies who agree with you.
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For the nation to live, the tribe must die.
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Kids deserve arts, and it's just as important as science, math, history, English or athletics.
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Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.
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Africa is going through its own historical process of state formation just as Europe and America did. It is just happening much later than other continents because of the interruption of Africa's own historical development by the colonization of Africa by Europe.
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I want young Indian composers to be able to do more than just film music. I want to give them the skills that will enable them to create their own palette of sounds instead of having to write formulaic music. It doesn't matter if they become sound engineers, producers, composers or performers - I want them to be as imaginative as they like.
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I find that the kinds of music I'm drawn to are those that a lot of people take for granted.
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I don't understand why the press is so interested in speculating about my appearance, anyway. What does my face have to do with my music or my dancing?
