Jimmy Cliff Quotes
In hindsight, I see the great value of family and how it moulded my life and kept me together. So now family means everything to me.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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Everyone knows that Apple crushed Microsoft in the mobile era. But it was exactly the opposite in the PC Wars of the 1980s and 1990s.
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I believe in the impossible because no one else does.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.
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Beauty can make you powerful in a way that isn't good for you. Being OK is better for the person I have become.
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I've never bought this idea of taking a therapeutic distance. If I see a student or house staff cry, I take great faith in that. That's a great person; they're going to be a great doctor.
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I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
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And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration.
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How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree.
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I think encouraging young people to twerk might be a bad thing. It's a stripper's move. If I had a daughter of nine, I wouldn't want her twerking.
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My dad was always busy. You would pop round for a cup of tea, and within minutes you would see him walking past with a step-ladder. He was always fixing things.
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I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.
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Singing for stage, if you don't hear yourself, that's when you push, and that's when you can hurt your voice sometimes. So if I can hear myself in my ear, it really helps me to find that balance of how loud I needed to be singing.
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I'm pretty much a straight guy on 'The Office.' We can't all be crazies. You need some balance.
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Good men must not obey the laws too well.
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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
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There is the cult of the actor and of the director, and there's even been the cult of the celebrity chef and gardener, but there has never been a cult of the screenwriter. But I'm happy about that because what I crave - in a completely venal way - is creative opportunities, not recognition.
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My mother wanted me to be friends only with children she considered socially suitable.
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Prostitution and robbery are two living protests, respectively female and male, made by the natural state against the social state.
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In hindsight, I see the great value of family and how it moulded my life and kept me together. So now family means everything to me.
