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 literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft.
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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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64: Often it is means that justify ends: Goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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I don't hide anything about my life, I talk about everything. I talk about it - all kinds of things. I've done songs about bad experiences, a couple about growing up in the ghetto and being abused, sexually. Being raped. And I talk about it.
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The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
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I like the idea of amending the 1964 Civil Rights Act to include a ban of discrimination based on sexual orientation. It would be simple. It would be straightforward.
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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.
