Janet Jackson Quotes
People can have rhinoceros skin, but there's a point when something's going to hurt you.
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Figure out what you're good at and start helping other people with it; give it away. Pay it forward. Karma sort of works because people are very consistent. On a long enough timescale, you will attract what you project.
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My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
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America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.
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We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone.
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.
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My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.
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It's unacceptable to just sit on the couch and say I'm not doing anything. You've got to get out and do everything you can.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.
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You don't have to find out what someone's mechanical abilities are. All those factors are already a known commodity. I've seen teams win championships and have their entire team quit the next day because they weren't happy.
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I can't think of anything I hate more than a former punk - they are the most self-righteous people in the world.
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Mumbai is like Manhattan. There's a certain pace, a social life and the thrill of a professional life.
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If you look at the polling around climate change in this country before 'Sandy', that was kind of the low point in terms of Americans believing that climate change was real and that humans were causing it.
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The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop song. That's the only music you can do that with.
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I'll get up at 5 or 6. I try to catch up on sleep on the weekends, so I'll try to get seven hours of sleep. During the week, my ideal is to go to bed at 9 and wake up six hours later.
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I think God has a sense of humor, and the way my lessons come from God is very funny. I have to laugh at myself even if it's a tough lesson.
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In nature there are few sharp lines.
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Whenever you have a crisis, you're always going to have the extremists taking advantage of the situation.
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A policeman's lot is not a happy one
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I love the idea of a website/blog being a catalyst for propelling people out into the world, and I enjoy it most when people write me to say that their world looked or smelled or felt a little different because of something that I wrote.
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How did it happen that now he could see everything so clearly. Something had given him leave to live in the present. Not once in his entire life had he come to rest in the quiet center of himself but had forever cast himself from some dark past he could not remember to a future that did not exist. Not once had he been present for his life. So his life had passed like a dream. Is it possible for people to miss their lives the way one can miss a plane?
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People can have rhinoceros skin, but there's a point when something's going to hurt you.
