Afrika Bambaataa Quotes
The thing that's good about Hip Hop is that it has experimented with a lot of different sounds and music.
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What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
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Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
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In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.
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Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.
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The desert Arab found no joy like the joy of voluntarily holding back. He found luxury in abnegation, renunciation, self restraint. He made nakedness of the mind as sensuous as nakedness of the body. He saved his own soul, perhaps, and without danger, but in a hard selfishness.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever.
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Unfortunately, we have seen terrorist groups use social media to spread hateful propaganda, to recruit members, and to incite violence with alarming effectiveness.
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Anyone can make an article longer; the skill is keeping it tight and lean.
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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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I like excess. And giant M&M's.
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I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.
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In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.
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I wanted to be Beetlejuice. I watched nonstop 'Beetlejuice' and 'The Princess Bride' growing up.
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The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
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As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.
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Beijing, much as it has done with Hong Kong, persists in equating 'people power' with instability.
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You know, every family and every business in California knows what it means to go through tough times.
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The aim of life is no more to control the mind, but to develop it harmoniously; not to achieve salvation here after, but to make the best use of it here below; and not to realise truth, beauty and good only in contemplation, but also in the actual experience of daily life; social progress depends not upon the ennoblement of the few but on the enrichment of democracy; universal brotherhood can be achieved only when there is an equality of opportunity - of opportunity in the social, political and individual life.
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I don't believe that anybody has come to a conclusion on why something is funny. It's funny because it's ridiculous and it's ridiculous for different reasons at different times.
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I'm knocking our pitiful, pathetic lawmakers.
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I can't stay in one place for too long.
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People like Elizabeth Dole have given too much power to the special interests.
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The thing that's good about Hip Hop is that it has experimented with a lot of different sounds and music.
