Muddy Waters Quotes
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I don't think it is important to be a role model, because if you are a role model, you are pretending to be someone else.
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Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
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It is not only our duty but our moral obligation to break from the oppression of debt. We must rise above the political considerations and do what is right for the future of our nation.
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Women are wonderful, but they get so caught up about their body. We need to unhook from worrying so much. When I don't feel good, I look in the mirror and think I look fat and miserable. But when I feel good and whole, I'm not worried about my body because I'm living in it. It doesn't become an object.
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Language does not make one an elite.
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I'm rebelling against being handed a career, like, 'You're the next this; you're the next that.' I'm not the next anything, I'm the first me. I can't be myself, I can't just be Idris Elba. But that's just the nature of the business.
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What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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I'm working on a bunch of things with my daughter Emily. In some ways, she's a smarter and better editor than I am.
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I have worked very hard to shed away my chocolate boy image in order to get a tough look for this action entertainer. I am confident of my success and would love to dedicate the same to Director Balachandar sir.
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No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.
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Despite the demands of this job, one of the things my wife and I try to do is to spend time together alone. And one of the things we really enjoy doing together is seeing a good movie.
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The Disney Channel puts out movies, like, every couple of months.
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The most famous Obama precept is, 'No drama.'
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Most of the people who live in Washington come from other places and you can learn something from them.
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There's always a theme I'm drawn to, that we humans are not good or bad. We're all a mixture of both. We can have great compassion or commit great violence.
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Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.
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God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.
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A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynasty—and, by which definition, a philosopher—dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never quite sure that he was not a butterfly dreaming it was a Chinese philosopher. Envy him; in his two-fold security.
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Have you ever walked along a shoreline, only to have your footprints washed away? That's what Alzheimer's is like. The waves erase the marks we leave behind, all the sand castles. Some days are better than others.
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We live in the moment now where this whole movie business is crazy.
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As time has gone on and we're at the end of the 20th century and major publishing is a big business, yes, of course we're going to get a lot of plain, mediocre trash. There are a lot of writers who get huge advances for books that don't go anywhere and they have to burn them somewhere or throw them away. I always think about all the poor trees that have been sacrificed.
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Ain't nobody's business, if I bark like a dog.
