Michael Jackson Quotes
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Before you judge me, ask me about my childhood. And I will ask you about yours.
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I wanted so badly to play in the park across the street because the kids were playing baseball and football but I had to record.
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The actor's tense, he's being taped and things are not falling naturally. That's what I hate about Boadway. I feel like I'm giving a whole lot for nothing. I like to capture things and hold them there and share them with the whole world.
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People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.
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My heart and prayers go out to every individual...
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The world should be full of love. Love. Love is the most important thing in the world.
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I can tell you there are rewards that go far beyond money and public acclaim and awards.
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In my business you cant trust anyone because you dont know whose your friend. Becoming successful means you become a prisoner...
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Being on stage is magic. There's nothing like it. You feel the energy of everybody who's out there. You feel it all over your body. When the lights hit you, it's all over, I swear it is.
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For me, Love is something very pure.
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I'd say to myself: "This is my dream, this is my wish." Because a wish is more than a wish. It is a goal. It is something your conscious and subconscious can help make reality.
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I put real pressure on myself and I demand the best out of myself.
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Fred Astaire told me things I will never forget. Gene Kelly also said he liked my dancing. It was a fantastic experience because I felt I had been inducted into an informal fraternity of dancers, and I felt so honored because these were the people I most admired in the world.
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My life is very complicated. I have a lot of things going on. I am juggling a lot of responsibilities. There is so much going on that it is astounding, it really is.
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I don't like to see anybody hurt or suffer, especially children.
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I could compose and write music and get to share it with the masses and the people around the world and to have them to receive it so beautifully - I love that.
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All the forms of popular music from jazz to hip-hop, to bebop, to soul come from black innovation. You talk about different dances from the catwalk, to the jitterbug, to the Charleston, to break dancing -\-\ all these are forms of black dancing...What would [life] be without a song, without a dance, and joy and laughter, and music.
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I think my image gets distorted in the public's mind. They don't get a clear or full picture of what I'm like, despite the press coverage I mentioned early. Mistruths are printed as fact, in some cases, and frequently only half of a story will be told. The part that doesn't get printed is often the part that would make the printed part less sensational by shedding light on the facts.
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I don't think I'm better than other people, I think I'm different from other people, because I do different things.
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I care about being paid fairly for what I do. When I approach a project, I put my whole heart and soul into it. Because I really care about it.
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Children are loving, they don't gossip, they don't complain, they're just openhearted. They're ready for you. They don't judge. They don't see things by way of color. They're very child-like. That's the problem with adults: they lose that child-like quality.
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The teacher always used me as an example to the class of good English and good storytelling because we all had to write the same stories. But she used to make me go out front - which I hated - and read my story to the class and I would get huge applause. Not because of who I was but because they truly enjoyed the stories I wrote.
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Heal the World, make it a better place, for you and for me and the entire human race, there are people dying, if you care enough for the living, make a better place for you and for me.
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Children have taught me to always be forgiving.