Michael Jackson Quotes
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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Seriously, 'Honey Boo Boo' is the decay of Western civilization. Just because so many people watch the show doesn't mean it's good.
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I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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I know that I am an excellent live performer. I know that I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what it is I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade. They get a two-hour show, sometimes a three-hour show, for a decent price.
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I saw an interview that I did with someone, and I was horrified by it. And I said to my wife, 'This is unbearable how I talk.'
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How can it be said we should use only constitutional means in our struggle, when all resistance is illegal and we have no way to change the brutal realities of the racism regime?
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The kids from the streets don't want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify with. They want to hear about the reality of their situation, not fairy tales. They don't care if it's ugly; they just want reality.
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I've had to be tough my whole life.
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When I go out and I see the genuine appreciation from the people, that's a big thing for me.
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If you are ambitious to talk well, you must be as much as possible in the society of well-bred, cultured people. If you seclude yourself, though you are a college graduate, you will be a poor converser.
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Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.
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In the future, I want a movie career, kids and a happy marriage.
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I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.
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One of my biggest flaws is I don't take advice.
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A fighter, a real strong fighter, should always look dignified and calm, and I believe that any expression of aggression is an expression of weakness. A strong person will not be nervous and will not express aggression towards his opponent. He will be confident in his abilities and his training; then he will face the fight calm and balanced.
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Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.
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Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.
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The problem with losing your anonymity is that you can never go back.
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Conservatism cherishes tradition; innovation fetishizes novelty. They tug in different directions, the one toward the past, the other toward the future.
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Fay: Have you known him long?Hal: We shared the same cradle.Fay: Was that economy or malpractice?Hal: We were too young then to practice and economics still defeat us.
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Winning our fans' approval will come from all of us doing the right things for the right reasons, me included.
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I prefer just being with people I like. That's my way of celebrating.
