Michael Jackson Quotes
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Success definitely brings on loneliness. People think you're lucky, that you have everything. They think you can go anywhere and do anything, but that's not the point. One hungers for the basic stuff.
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I know that the creator will go, but his work survives. That is why to escape death, I attempt to bind my soul to my work.
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They say that parenting is like dancing. You take one step, your child takes another.
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I love experienced people. I love people who are phenomenally talented. I love people who've worked so hard and been so courageous and are the leaders in their fields. For me to meet somebody like that and learn from them and share words with them -to me that's magic.
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The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music.
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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.
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I've never seen a performer create electricity with an audience like James Brown. He's got everybody in his hands and whatever he wants to do with them, he does it. It's amazing. I've always thought he was underrated.
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I deserve a fair trial, like every other American citizen. A large amount of ugly, malicious misinformation has been released to the media about me.
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And that's what innocence is. It's simple and trusting like a child, not judgmental and committed to one narrow point of view. If you are locked into a pattern of thinking and responding, your creativity gets blocked. You miss the freshness and magic of the moment. Learn to be innocent again, and that freshness never fades.
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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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I look at things and try to imagine what is possible and then hope to surpass those boundaries.
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The fans don't know how much I love them so. It really can get to a hurting feeling inside due to how strong I love them all.
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My fans are activists they will fight with you to defend me.
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Nothing quenches the thirst like a wheat beer, or sharpens the appetite like an India pale ale. Nothing goes as well with seafood as a dry porter or stout, or accompanies chocolate like an imperial stout. Nothing soothes like a barleywine. These are just a few of the specialty styles of beer.
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Despite everything, no one can dictate who you are to other people.
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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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There's a Mother's Day and there's a Father's Day, but there's no Children's Day. It would mean a lot. World peace.
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Well, you don't get to do things that other children get to do, having friends and slumber parties and buddies. There were none of that for me. I didn't have friends when I was little. My brothers were my friends.
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I just want to bring the world together. Togetherness is what I want for this planet.
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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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Follow the Golden Rule. Be kind to your neighbors, love them as much as you would love yourself, do unto others.
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In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way.
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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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Culture changes, fashions change, customs change. Great music is immortal.