Maurice White Quotes
I have learned that music helps a lot of people survive, and they want songs that can give them something - I guess you could call it hope.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
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I love speaking at schools. That's always my favorite because I wish I'd had someone who was like me come speak at my school.
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The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.
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I try to be as ignorant about things as I can.
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A lot of comedians do bits where they say, 'I was listening to this song, and this person said this, and you know how they say that?' And I thought it would work better if I actually had a DJ put that song lyric right there. It makes it more dynamic, and it's more energetic.
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Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.
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The Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center serves as a poignant reminder of our past and a trusted source of education for schoolchildren, community members, and visitors from across the country.
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It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.
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Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.
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I think there was a time when I considered myself a work addict, but that's no longer accurate. My life has changed so dramatically over the last number of years, especially having a family now. My priorities have shifted.
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Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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The one thing I am now sure of is that if there is such a thing as destiny, it is a result of our passion, be that for money, power, or love. Passion, for better or worse.
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I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.
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Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.
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Dolomite is a whole mess of stuff, a mixture. It gets characterised as 'a stuff' because of the interest of oil geologists. It would have been a nonentity were it not for its applications.
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Things happen for a reason. I'm happy, but not I'm not satisfied with the things I'm doing.
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The appeal of the wild for me is its unpredictability. You have to develop an awareness, react fast, be resourceful and come up with a plan and act on it.
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To a large extent, the problems of poets are the problems of painters, and poets must often turn to the literature of painting for a discussion of their own problems.
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I think 'destiny' is just a fancy word for a psychological pattern.
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What I've learned in 40 years of consumer reporting is that the market is imperfect, and some people get ripped off.
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Sometimes acting and politics make a very bad combination. I think that sometimes people take me less seriously in my work for the UN because I am an actor.
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I have learned that music helps a lot of people survive, and they want songs that can give them something - I guess you could call it hope.
