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?
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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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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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Kids deserve arts, and it's just as important as science, math, history, English or athletics.
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When you have somebody in a position of power show interest in you after you've kind of been down and out, that's a big boost.
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There's nothing classic about what's around now. I am a bit old-school. There are some things that are never out of fashion because they just look good. But if you want classic style these days you have to get it made.
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Men are hugely significant to me and to many of the women I interview.
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When people in stadiums do the Wave, it's the group-mind collective organism spontaneously organizing itself to express an emotion, pass time, and reflect the joy of seeing the rhythms of many as one, a visual rhyming or music in which everyone senses where the motion is going.
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Start-ups should be hunch-driven early on and data-driven as they scale.
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'The Red' is the first book in a trilogy that gained a big following as a self-published e-book, and is now out in paper from Saga. It introduces us to reluctant hero Shelley, a former anti-war activist who chooses to join the military rather than serve jail time after being arrested at a protest.
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The idea of writing songs because you're depressed and you need to communicate it somehow, that isn't really true for me.
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Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.
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For me, making music is a continuous learning experience, and I think that it feeds itself.
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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?
