Muddy Waters Quotes
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Reducing carbon emissions is important, but it is shortsighted if not coupled with reducing the toxic emissions from our heart; and that is something spiritual leaders are supposed to teach and something all thinking people, regardless of their beliefs, should practice.
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The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you're reaching people.
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My mother is extremely interested in everything esoteric.
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The first job I ever had was singing in a jazz club when I was like 15 with my friend, and we earned like 70 bucks. We were like, 'Oh my God!'
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In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.
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People will put restrictions on your ability, on your aptitude, on your talent, on your character, and to be honest, it's just opinion. Don't let anyone put you in a box or draw your path for you.
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Goals and objectives are based on theories and foundations.
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I want to play real characters rather than young leads in very plotty things. I want variety.
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For me, New York is comfortable, not strange.
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In early Islam, it was an absolute tenet that the prophet was not to be worshipped. The prophet was a messenger. And one of the things that's happened in Islam is this cult of the prophet, which to my view is counter to the original tradition.
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All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.
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How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy - I want to talk about the movie in a second - but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a legend in his own time?
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I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves.
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Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
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There is a big difference between No. 1 and No. 2. I don't care who wrote it. I'd love to one day have a No. 1 that I wrote, but if that ain't in the cards, whatever. My job is right now is to make the best music I can and try to get it to the people, whether it be something that I wrote or not. It's my job to be the best I can for the fans.
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I've been dancing since I was seven, but I never really developed a regimen until I was on Broadway and responsible for a professional performance every night.
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Nobody's gonna care about your stuff the way you do.
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The martyrologies are catalogues in which are to be found the names of the saints with the days and places of their deaths and, generally, with the distinctive character of their sanctity and with an historic summary of their lives.
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It's probably better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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What surprises me about humanity is that in the end such a narrow range of plights defines our moral lives.
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What can be better than to get out a book on Saturday afternoon and thrust all mundane considerations away till next week.
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Opinions, yes; convictions, no. That is the point of departure for an intellectual pride.
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Creativity is a spark. It can be excruciating when we're rubbing two rocks together and getting nothing. And it can be intensely satisfying when the flame catches and a new idea sweeps around the world.
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You get a heck of a sound from the church. Can't you hear it in my voice?