Marvin Gaye Quotes

I've been really tryin, babyTryin to hold back these feelings for so longAnd if you feel, like I feel babyCome on, oh come on,Let's get it on.

Marvin Gaye

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• I have had it up to here with the prosecutions, the government's attitude, the judiciary, the media's stance and the majority of Turks who view the Kurdish people's justified cause through a nationalist lens.

  

  Osman Baydemir
  • People
  • Up
  • Government

• The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Genius
  • Public
  • Forgives

• Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Matter
  • Interest
  • Opinions

• I don't think you will meet anyone in Israel who will ever burn the American flag.

  

  Rand Paul
  • American
  • Think
  • You

• The Rio Earth Summit in 1992 changed my life completely, turning me into an activist. From the air, you see things you can't see from the ground - you really understand the impact of man, even in a place you know well. My work is meant to convince people we can no longer live like this.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but thank God, all they found were shoes, beautiful shoes.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • God
  • Beautiful
  • Shoes

• Today, as we look back on the history of our nation and take note of how far we have come as a people, we are reminded that we owe a great debt to those who fought valiantly for the freedoms that we easily take for granted.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • People
  • Great
  • History

• I'd love to see a good script of one of my books, in these years of animations and comic book sequels, and had so many written over the years, but none quite clicked.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Good
  • Books
  • Written

• Indian-ness, love for your country, is complicated. For every person, there is a different way that you show respect for your country... my mother-in-law will say karmayogi is the way to go - do your work.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Work
  • Country
  • Way

• I like dirty boys. Mechanics, construction workers, artists who get paint and clay everywhere. They gotta have rough hands.

  

  Tamara Feldman
  • Hands
  • Dirty
  • Paint

• Only the really young are fearless, have the optimism, the romanticism to take unimaginable risks.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Fearless
  • Risks
  • Optimism

• Non-violence and kindness to living beings is kindness to oneself. For thereby one's own self is saved from various kinds of sins and resultant sufferings and is able to secure his own welfare.

  

  Mahavira
  • Violence
  • Kindness

• When you laugh at something, you don’t fear it anymore.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Fear

• Education is learning to grow, learning what to grow toward, learning what is good and bad, learning what is desirable and undesirable, learning what to choose and what not to choose.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Education

• Did I miss the skyscrapers, did I miss the long freeway? From the coast of California to the shores of The Delaware Bay You can bet your life I did, till I got back in the U.S.A.

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Life
  • Long
  • California

• Godhood called, and he went, fleet-footed, to worship at his own altar.

  

  Clive Barker

• When I was younger, I'd be in the studio three days straight to get something right, and my manager would be like, 'Go home!' Even now, I still sleep in the studio sometimes, but I can't do it quite as often. I've got gigs; I can't have my hobo beard! But if you love what you're doing, you can't stop. It's obsessive.

  

  Labrinth LSD
  • Home
  • Stop
  • Sleep

• The entire world is now a rival to Silicon Valley. No country, state, region, nor city has a lock on innovation in technology anymore.

  

  Fred Wilson
  • World
  • Country
  • City

• I believe passion is the sword of love that pierces through the wall of fears that hold us back.

  

  Lewis Howes
  • Believe
  • Passion
  • Wall

• Courage? The moment when my troubles are going to end is not the moment when my courage is going to fail me.

  

  Marie Antoinette
  • Courage
  • Moment
  • Troubles

• I met designers that are in the business for ten years in the movies, and their biggest complaint is things don't look anything like they were designed. Look at my drawing! But nobody ever sees the drawing, that's the thing. So I knew right from the beginning that I would design everything in 3D on my computer, and those models literally went to the machines. So every little radius on most of the vehicles you see there, I built with my mouse and keyboard.

  

  Daniel Simon
  • Design
  • Computer
  • Vehicle

• I'm a pretty normal guy. I'm really good at knowing how a normal guy would react in situations.

  

  Jason Bateman
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Pretty

• Since I was 18, I've been under orders from magazines and newspapers - chiefly The New York Times and Rolling Stone - to step into the lives of musicians, actors, and artists, and somehow find out who they really are underneath the mask they present to the public. But I didn't always succeed.

  

  Neil Strauss
  • Present

• I've been really tryin, babyTryin to hold back these feelings for so longAnd if you feel, like I feel babyCome on, oh come on,Let's get it on.

  

  Marvin Gaye