Michael Jackson Quotes
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The purpose of parenting is to provide steady and wide-ranging opportunities for a child. The child does the rest.
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There is an inherent dissonance between the quasi-formal world of computer programs - defining the programmed machine in each system - and the non-formal problem world of the system requirements.
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You can bring out your inner self and moods through dancing. Music does the same.
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Going to my shows, it's like a religious experience, because you come out, you go in one person, you come out a different person.
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You try to be as original as you can be without thinking about statistics. You just go from the soul and from the heart.
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I was too shy to be around real people. It wasn't like old ladies talking to plants.
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I am Peter Pan. He represents youth, childhood, never growing up, magic, flying.
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I love to read. I wish I could advise more people to read. There’s a whole new world in books. If you can’t afford to travel, you travel mentally through reading. You can see anything and go any place you want to in reading.
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In the end, the most important thing is to be true to yourself and those you love and work hard. I mean, work like there's no tomorrow. Train. Strive. I mean, really train and cultivate your talent to the highest degree. Be the best at what you do. Get to know more about your field than anybody alive. Use the tools of your trade, if it's books or a floor to dance on or a body of water to swim in. Whatever it is, it's yours.
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One day my dad said, "If you guys ever stop singing, I'll drop you like a hot potato." That's what he said. It hurt me. You don't say that to children and I never forgot it.
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Yeah, "Wacko Jacko". Where'd that come from? Some English tabloid. I have a heart and I have feelings, I feel that, when you do that to me. It's not nice.
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If you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself, and make a change.
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I can't ignore someone that's in need or is hurting. How can people just turn their heads from something like that.
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Masquerading the heart is the height of haunting souls.
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I just want to bring the world together. Togetherness is what I want for this planet.
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We need to put love back into the world remind the world that love is important. We're all one.
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My fans are activists they will fight with you to defend me.
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I want to tell the children of the world, you are all our children, each one of you is my child and I love you all.
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Who will dance on the floor in the round?
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I never think about themes. I let the music create itself. I like it to be a potpourri of all kinds of sounds, all kinds of colors, something for everybody, from the farmer in Ireland to the lady who scrubs toilets in Harlem.
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To clink glasses of a freshly made, seasonal beer, preferably in a pub or garden, with friends and perhaps new acquaintances, is a ritual that makes every participant feel good. We may not rationalize this at the time, but it gives us a sense of place in our common community and our time in the tides of life on earth. This is a way to value beer and treat it with respect.
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No one can quite say what the creative process is. Because I have nothing to do with it of course. It's created in space. It's God's work, not mine.
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I do disguises for different reasons. I like to study people - be like the fly on the wall. Even if it's two old ladies sitting on a bench or some kids on a swing. Because I don't know what it's like to fit in an everyday life situation.
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Well, especially now I come to realize - and then - I would do my schooling which was three hours with a tutor and right after that I would go to the recording studio and record, and I'd record for hours and hours until it's time to go to sleep.