Jack London Quotes
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I always played to win.
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I'm still somebody that listens to a lot of James Brown, a lot of The O'Jays, a lot of TLC... in that era, producers had more musicianship.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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I believe that leaders should inspire you to be more like them.
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I think people are too hard on the Pistols. The Pistols started the whole punk thing and never saw much money.
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If it's a cocktail party, I generally make five or six different things, and I try to choose recipes that feel like a meal: a chicken thing, a fish or shrimp thing, maybe two vegetable things, and I think it's fun to end the cocktail party with a sweet thing.
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If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.
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Law school and summer camp are the two experiences that inform pretty much all I do.
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I did two or three plays every summer.
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Times change. The farmer's daughter now tells jokes about the traveling salesman.
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Junooniyat for love but not necessarily from the romantic perspective. For me, that is for family, that is for my work. For me, both these things are very important, so there is junoon for people I love, which is my family, and my work, which I worship.
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I'm like a packrat with work. I hoard my jobs.
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I want to play until the end.
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I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones.
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The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.
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David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music.
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Nowadays, everybody assumes, when they wake up in the morning, if they have a question, it will get answered. Because they have the internet. No matter what the question is, someone will answer their question.
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Somehow in the 20th Century an idea has developed that music is an activity or skill which is not comprehensible to the man in the street. This is an arrogant assertion and not necessarily a true one.
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Let me make a solemn pledge before all of you, before the whole world and before God, that I will devote all my energy and all I possess in my power to serve the people of Nigeria and humanity.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
My own mother is very accomplished and makes things like bahar breads as though they are going out of fashion - they are like stuffed parathas and can contain anything from potatoes to poppy seeds.
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Stay focused. Talk about things that’ll matter to the people, you know? It’s the economy, stupid.
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There is one prevailing key to success. Do what you resolve to do. Then you'll be a success. If you can discipline yourself to follow through on your promises to yourself, your self-esteem goes up. Persistence is self-discipline in action. Self-discipline is the foundation of self-confidence .
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My biggest critical success was 'The Draughtsman's Contract,' but then it wasn't the English who particularly thought so; it was the French, who are much more interested in Cartesian logic: in finding your way through more cerebral puzzle-making, if you wish.
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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
